use-sortablejs

SortableJS ported to React hooks.

Demo: https://harrel56.github.io/use-sortablejs

Created to serve as a refreshed alternative to react-sortablejs, with hook design inspired by @mui/base.

Installation

Currently, package is only available as ES module.

npm i use-sortablejs

Contains no external dependencies, only peer dependencies:

• react: ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0
• sortablejs: ^1.0.0
• @types/react: ^17.0.0 || ^18.0.0
• @types/sortablejs: ^1.0.0

Package exports:

• SortableProvider: sortable context provider,
• useSortable: main hook which requires access to sortable context
• and typescript definitions.

Supports:

• all basic functionalities from SortableJS,
• swap plugin (you have to mount it yourself)
• and multidrag plugin (you have to mount it yourself).

Usage

Before using useSortable hook, it's required to wrap your application with SortableProvider. Preferably, there should be only one SortableProvider per whole application, but it's not mandatory. Nevertheless, interactions between two sortables in separate contexts have undefined behaviour.

Example:

// App.tsx
import {SortableProvider} from 'use-sortablejs'
import List from './List'

const App = () => {
  return (
    <SortableProvider>
      <List/>
    </SortableProvider>
  )
}

// List.tsx
import {useState} from 'react'
import {useSortable} from 'use-sortablejs'

const List = () => {
  const [items, setItems] = useState([
    'Item 1',
    'Item 2',
    'Item 3',
    'Item 4',
    'Item 5'
  ])
  const {getRootProps, getItemProps} = useSortable({setItems, options: {animation: 150}})
  return (
    <div {...getRootProps()}>
      {items.map(item => <div key={item} {...getItemProps(item)}>{item}</div>)}
    </div>
  )
}

Where item type can be possibly anything (primitive, object of any shape, function).

Details

All types definitions can be found in this file.

useSortable takes UseSortableProps parameter, which is an object containing:

1. setItems: Dispatch<SetStateAction<T[]>>, where T is your item type. In most cases this should be a setState function returned from React useState hook.
2. options: ExtendedOptions<T>, options object which you would normally pass to Sortable.create().
3. (optional) cloneItem: (item: T) => T, clone function to perform when item is being cloned. Defaults to internal shallow clone function.
4. (optional) sortableRef: LegacyRef<Sortable>, ref object or ref callback, which will be set/called with created Sortable object - set to null on dismount.

Additionally, all event functions that you pass to options object will have access to extended event object (SortableEventExtended<T>), which contains additional field stateItem, which corresponds to dragged item state and is directly mapped from item field.

Using sortableRef

Leveraging options reactivity is the preferred way of achieving dynamic changes to Sortable object, but if you need more control sortableRef is the way to go.

const myRef = useRef<Sortable>(null)
const {getRootProps, getItemProps} = useSortable({setItems, sortableRef: myRef})

const myCallbackRef = (sortable: Sortable | null) => {
  sortable?.option('sort', false)
}
const {getRootProps, getItemProps} = useSortable({setItems, sortableRef: myCallbackRef})

Constraints

1. Each direct child of node with getRootProps() should have set props from getItemProps(item).
2. Each direct child of node with getRootProps() should contain unique key prop (NOT list index).
3. setItems function should cause rerender of sortable list to reflect items state.

Behaviour is undefined if any of these constraints is not met.