A compact, masonry style alternating timeline react component which is fully customizable.
- 🎛️ Customize everything.
- 🎨 Consistent (BEM) class naming for easy styling with CSS, emotion...
- ⏰ Custom date formatting.
- ⚖️ Alternating, left or right positioning.
- 🖼️ Render images and custom content.
- 🪄 Built with Typescript.
Add the package with the package manager via NPMs or GitHubs registry of choice to your project:
- yarn:
yarn add react-alternating-timeline - npm:
npm install react-alternating-timeline - pnpm:
pnpm add react-alternating-timeline - npx:
npx -p react-alternating-timeline
import { Timeline, TimelineItemsProps } from 'react-alternating-timeline'; const items: TimelineItemsProps = [ { key: 'first', date: new Date(), title: 'Special event!', }, { key: 'second', date: new Date(), title: 'Event', children: <img src="./test.jpg" alt="test" />, }, ... ]; <Timeline items={items} />;The available properties of the Timeline component:
| Property | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
items | TimelineItemsProps | Array of timeline items | |
positioning? | 'alternating' | 'left' | 'right' | How the items should be positioned relative to the timeline | 'alternating' |
minMarkerGap? | number | The minimum gap markers will have between each other | 50 (px) |
formatDate? | (date: Date) => string | Callback to format date | |
customMarker? | ReactElement | Custom maker element replacing the default | |
customPointer? | ReactElement | Custom pointer element replacing the default | |
styleConfig? | StyleConfig | Style config object for customizing timeline by setting css custom properties | |
className? | string | Additional class name |
An array of the following properties:
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
key | Key | Unique key for each item |
title? | string | Optional title paragraph displayed bold |
date | Date | string | Date either being formatted according to provided format or passed as a string |
children? | ReactNode | Pass custom content as children to the component |
formatDate? | (date: Date) => string | Callback to format date of specific item |
customMarker? | ReactElement | Overwriting customMarker property of parent Timeline |
customPointer? | ReactElement | Overwriting customPointer property of parent Timeline |
The style can either be passed as a javascript object...
{ line?: { width?: string; color?: string; }; gap?: string; offset?: { left?: string; right?: string; }; marker?: { size?: string; color?: string; radius?: string; }; pointer?: { height?: string; width?: string; offset?: string; }; card?: { background?: string; radius?: string; offset?: string; shadow?: string; padding?: string; }; };...or the custom properties can be set directly in css
.timeline { --line-width: 0.2rem; --line-color: black; --marker-size: 1rem; --marker-color: var(--line-color); --marker-radius: 50%; --pointer-height: 2rem; --pointer-width: 1rem; --pointer-offset: 5rem; --card-background: whitesmoke; --card-radius: 0.1rem; --card-offset: 1rem; --card-shadow: unset; --card-padding: 1rem; --gap: 1rem; --offset-left: 0; --offset-right: 5rem; }(These are the default values)
View a full demo of component as storybook: Storybook 📚