react-iscroller

An effective react infinite scroll container. inspired by twitter's blog.

Motivation

As the pwa(progressive web app) becoming more popular, the performance and user experience are more and more important. And infinite scroll is almost the most important part within a pwa project. But i found the results by searching react infinite scroller on github are not my needs. Fortunately, I found this article of twitter on medium by chance. That's i want. So I tried to make my own one.

Install

npm i react-iscroller

Example

It's simple to use as follow:

import { InfiniteScroller } from "react-iscroller"

return <InfiniteScroller
  itemAverageHeight={22}
  containerHeight={window.innerHeight}
  items={this.state.messages}
  itemKey="id"
  onRenderCell={this.renderCell}/>

Feature

• infinite load
• lazy load
• dynamic height
• pure component
• cache
• resize

Online Demo

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Props

containerHeight(required): number

the height of the wrapper of the infinite scroller

className(optional): string

className attatched to scroller.

items(required): object[]

your data

itemKey(required): string

identity of your data. help scroller implements pure component.

itemAverageHeight(required): number

As the twitter blog mentioned, averageHeight can help scroller to guesstimate the buffer height. Usually your item height.

onRenderCell(required): (item: any, itemIndex: number) => ReactNode

called when trying to render an item. if you want to force scroller to update cache(eg. after image loaded), you can call this method.

cache(optional): Cache[]

cache the position of rendered item. your might need provide this prop when you want go back to the last place.

initialScrollTop(optional): number

set scroller's scrollTop to initialScrollTop after first render. if you had provied cache and initialScrollTop, you can get the last interface before unmount of scroller component.

onScroll(optional): (scrollerDom: HTMLDivElement) => void

called when scroller is scrolling.

onEnd?: () => void

called after anchor had arrived bottom.

Caveat

• Your item which returned by onRenderCell will be wrapped by a div that used for calculation.

• Because of the getBoundingClientRect, I can't get the margin size. So you should not use margin in your item css.

• Because of the scroll bug in ios, if you suffered this problem, it's normally! However, I did some optimization for ios--avoid change scrollTop.

• 2.x version is a bit heavy for dynamic height. If you can give your dynamic content a certain height, please use the version of 1.1.7.