Shaka Player React

A React component for Shaka Player, an open-source JavaScript library for adaptive media. It is highly recommended to check the official shaka documentation first.

Installation

npm install shaka-player-react --save

yarn add shaka-player-react

Usage

As seen in the example below, the CSS bundled with shaka-player has been imported separately. This is because shaka-player-react does not require any CSS internally, which keeps you in full control of the styling as if you were not using this React wrapper.

import React from 'react';
import ShakaPlayer from 'shaka-player-react';
import 'shaka-player-react/dist/controls.css';

function App() {
  return <ShakaPlayer autoPlay src="https://streams.com/example.mpd" />;
}

The following ShakaPlayer properties are supported:

Access shaka's player object.

The following is a more advanced setup to illustrate how you can integrate shaka's features in React.

import React, { useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
import ShakaPlayer from 'shaka-player-react';

function App() {
  const controllerRef = useRef(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    const {
      /** @type {shaka.Player} */ player,
      /** @type {shaka.ui.Overlay} */ ui,
      /** @type {HTMLVideoElement} */ videoElement
    } = controllerRef.current;

    async function loadAsset() {
      // Load an asset.
      await player.load('https://streams.com/example.mpd');

      // Trigger play.
      videoElement.play();
    }

    loadAsset();
  }, []);

  return <ShakaPlayer ref={controllerRef} />;
}

Or check the example in this repository.

Integrate with

Next.js

import React from 'react';
import dynamic from 'next/dynamic';

const ShakaPlayer = dynamic(() => import('shaka-player-react'), { ssr: false });

export default function Index() {
  return (
    <div>
      <ShakaPlayer autoPlay src="https://streams.com/example.mpd" />
    </div>
  );
}

When using next/dynamic with { ssr: false }, we'll make sure the component is not interpreted by Next.js SSR. As of today, pre-rendering shaka-player's UI is technically not possible due to the fact that it is not written in React (but in plain Javascript). Although, shaka-player heavily relies on browser API's and serves no real purpose on a backend anyways.