A tiny(around 1.3kb gzip) React library to generate colorful text placeholders 🎨

Inspired by this code illustration on CodeSandbox homepage 🙏

Try out the generator at react-spectrum.netlify.app 🎊 Also, check out @BotSpectrum twitter bot that tweets randomly generated colorful text placeholders for inspiration 🎊

Demo

Install

NPM

npm install react-spectrum

Yarn

yarn add react-spectrum

UMD build

<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-spectrum/dist/react-spectrum.umd.js"></script>

Usage

import React from "react";
// Import library
import Spectrum from "react-spectrum";
// or const Spectrum = require('react-spectrum');
// Render the placeholder
function Placeholder() {
  return (
    <Spectrum
      width={500}
      colors={["#757575", "#999999", "#0871F2", "#BF5AF2"]}
    />
  );
}

Props

Property	Type	Default	Description
`width`	`number`	`500`	Width of the placeholder container
`colors`	`Array<string>`	`['#eee']`	Possible colors of words, will be picked randomly
`wordWidths`	`Array<number>`	`[30, 60, 90, 120, 150]`	Possible widths of words, will be picked randomly
`wordDistances`	`Array<number>`	`[4, 8, 12]`	Possible distance between words, will be picked randomly
`wordHeight`	`number`	`12`	Height of every word placeholder
`wordRadius`	`number`	`20`	Border radius of every word
`lineDistance`	`number`	`12`	Distance(margin) between the lines
`linesPerParagraph`	`number`	`8`	Lines per paragraph. if there are multiple paragraphs, all of them will have same number of lines
`paragraphs`	`number`	`1`	Number of paragraphs in the placeholder
`paragraphDistance`	`number`	`24`	Distance(margin) between the paragraphs
`truncateLastLine`	`boolean`	`true`	Show less words in the last line for more natural feel
`renderWord`	`function`	`({ key, style}) => <span key={key} style={style} />`	Render word with customizations(avoid overriding passed style properties. it might break the functionality)

Contribute

Thanks for taking the time to contribute, please check out the src to understand how things work.

Reporting Issues

Found a problem? Want a new feature? First of all, see if your issue or idea has already been reported. If don't, just open a new clear and descriptive issue.

Submitting pull requests

Pull requests are the greatest contributions, so be sure they are focused in scope and do avoid unrelated commits.

Fork it!
Clone your fork: git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/react-spectrum
Navigate to the newly cloned directory: cd react-spectrum
Create a new branch for the new feature: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Install the tools necessary for development: yarn
Make your changes.
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request with full remarks documenting your changes

License

This project is licensed under The MIT License (MIT), see the LICENSE file for more details.

This project is tested with BrowserStack.