react-easy-sort

A React component to sort items in lists or grids

The goal of this component is to allow sorting elements with drag and drop.

It is mobile friendly by default. It doesn't block scrolling the page when swiping inside it: the user needs to press an item during at least 200ms to start the drag gesture.

On non-touch device, the drag gesture only starts after moving an element by at least one pixel. This is done to avoid blocking clicks on clickable elements inside an item.

Features

• Supports horizontal and vertical lists
• Supports grid layouts
• Mobile-friendly
• IE11 support 🙈

Demo

Check out the examples:

• Example with grid layout
• Example with vertical list layout
• Example with horizontal list layout
• Interactive avatars demo
• Example with custom knobs

Installation

yarn add react-easy-sort

or

npm install react-easy-sort --save

Basic usage

import SortableList, { SortableItem } from 'react-easy-sort'
import arrayMove from 'array-move'

const App = () => {
  const [items, setItems] = React.useState(['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I'])

  const onSortEnd = (oldIndex: number, newIndex: number) => {
    setItems((array) => arrayMove(array, oldIndex, newIndex))
  }

  return (
    <SortableList onSortEnd={onSortEnd} className="list" draggedItemClassName="dragged">
      {items.map((item) => (
        <SortableItem key={item}>
          <div className="item">{item}</div>
        </SortableItem>
      ))}
    </SortableList>
  )
}

Props

SortableList

Name	Description	Type	Default
as	Determines html tag for container element	keyof JSX.IntrinsicElements	div
onSortEnd*	Called when the user finishes a sorting gesture.	(oldIndex: number, newIndex: number) => void	-
draggedItemClassName	Class applied to the item being dragged	string	-
allowDrag	Determines whether items can be dragged	boolean	true

SortableItem

This component doesn't take any other props than its child. This child should be a single React element that can receives a ref. If you pass a component as a child, it needs to be wrapped with React.forwardRef().

SortableKnob

You can use this component if you doesn't want to whole item to be draggable but only a specific area of it.

import SortableList, { SortableItem, SortableKnob } from 'react-easy-sort'
import arrayMove from 'array-move'

const App = () => {
  const [items, setItems] = React.useState(['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I'])

  const onSortEnd = (oldIndex: number, newIndex: number) => {
    setItems((array) => arrayMove(array, oldIndex, newIndex))
  }

  return (
    <SortableList onSortEnd={onSortEnd} className="list" draggedItemClassName="dragged">
      {items.map((item) => (
        <SortableItem key={item}>
          <div className="item">
            <SortableKnob>
              <div>Drag me</div>
            </SortableKnob>
            {item}
          </div>
        </SortableItem>
      ))}
    </SortableList>
  )
}

This component doesn't take any other props than its child. This child should be a single React element that can receives a ref. If you pass a component as a child, it needs to be wrapped with React.forwardRef().

Recommended CSS rules

To disable browser default behaviors than can interfer with the dragging experience, we recommend adding the following declarations on the "items":

• user-select: none;: disable the selection of content inside the item (the blue box)
• pointer-events: none;: required for some browsers if your items contain images (see the Interactive avatars demo)

Development

yarn
yarn start

Now, open http://localhost:3001/index.html and start hacking!

License

MIT

Alternatives

• https://github.com/clauderic/react-sortable-hoc : before creating this library, I was using it and it was also supporting grid layouts. However, we had a lot of errors reported to our Sentry and this project was not maintained anymore.
• https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd: another great library for sorting items. However, it doesn't support grid layouts (as of 2021-02-05).