React Step Builder

React Step Builder is a headless, unopinionated, multi-step interface builder.

Version 3 introduces some breaking changes. If you are upgrading from earlier versions, please read the documentation carefully.

Global state management methods are removed from the library. React Step Builder will only focus on building step-by-step interfaces starting from version 3. You may use a state management tool of your choice. If this is bad news for you, I am sorry 🙇‍♂️

Installation

Using npm:

npm install react-step-builder

Usage

Example:

import { Steps, StepsProvider, useSteps } from "react-step-builder";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <StepsProvider>
      <MySteps />
    </StepsProvider>
  );
};

const MySteps = () => {
  const { next, prev } = useSteps();

  return (
    <Steps>
      <div>
        <h1>Step 1</h1>
      </div>
      <div>
        <h1>Step 2</h1>
      </div>
      <div>
        <h1>Step 3</h1>
      </div>
    </Steps>
  );
};

export default App;

Documentation

<Steps />

A component whose each direct sibling is treated as a step. Do not add anything else inside Steps component as they will be treated as a separate step.

❌ Incorrect:

<Steps>
  <Step1 />
  <Step2 />
  <NotAStep />
</Steps>

✅ Correct:

<Steps>
  <Step1 />
  <Step2>
    <NotAStep />
  </Step2>
</Steps>

This reason for this method is due to React's composition over inheritance principle. It also allows you to manage your state easily in the parent component.

useSteps

A special hook that accesses the state of <Steps /> component and exposes methods to move between steps.

const stepsState = useSteps();

These are the properties inside stepsState object.

<StepsProvider />

The component that renders <Steps /> should be wrapped with StepsProvider component. useSteps can only be called in a component that is rendered in the DOM tree under StepsProvider.

Step numbers start from 1 and goes up to the count of direct siblings given to the Steps component. If the number is out of range, first step is rendered by default.