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antonioru/beautiful-react-hooks

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TLDR

A collection of ready-to-use React utility hooks covering mouse and touch events, browser storage, geolocation, drag-and-drop, timers, speech, and more, so you never rewrite the same patterns across projects.

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  root((beautiful-react-hooks))
    Input events
      Mouse movement
      Touch gestures
      Swipe detection
    Browser APIs
      Geolocation
      Local storage
      Cookies
    UI behaviors
      Drag and drop
      Scroll observer
      Dark mode detect
    Extras
      Speech recognition
      Timers and intervals
      URL parameters
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add drag-and-drop reordering to a React list without writing raw event handlers from scratch.

USE CASE 2

Show an offline warning banner in a React app using a single hook that watches network status.

USE CASE 3

Read and write browser localStorage in a React component with automatic state synchronization.

USE CASE 4

Build a geolocation feature that tracks the user's coordinates and updates a map in real time.

Tech stack

JavaScriptTypeScriptReactRxJS

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Some hooks require optional peer dependencies like RxJS or React Router, install only the ones you use.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial projects, as long as you keep the MIT copyright notice.

In plain English

Beautiful-react-hooks is a library of ready-to-use utility functions for React, the popular JavaScript tool for building web interfaces. In React, these utility functions are called "hooks," and they let you add specific behaviors to your components without writing the logic from scratch each time. This library collects dozens of them in one place, covering a wide range of common needs. The hooks in this collection handle things like responding to mouse movements, touch gestures, and swipe events, detecting whether the user is online or offline, reading and writing to browser storage (localStorage, sessionStorage, and cookies), working with the device's geolocation, handling drag-and-drop interactions, running timers and intervals, detecting dark mode, observing when elements scroll into view, and reading or updating URL query parameters. There are also hooks for speech recognition and speech synthesis if the browser supports those features. The intended audience is front-end developers working on React projects who want to avoid rewriting the same patterns in every codebase. The README describes the goal as speeding up development by providing a concise, consistent API that a team can share. Each hook is documented separately in its own file, and the repository includes a live playground where you can try them out in a browser without setting up a project. Installing the library requires Node.js and either npm or yarn. You add it to a project with a single install command, then import individual hooks by name. Some hooks depend on third-party packages like RxJS or React Router, those are listed as optional peer dependencies and only need to be installed if you use the specific hooks that rely on them. The project is MIT-licensed and accepts contributions. The README asks contributors to include tests and documentation for any new hook they submit.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Using beautiful-react-hooks' useDrag and useDrop, write a React component that lets users reorder a list of cards by dragging them up and down.
Prompt 2
I want a React component that shows a banner when the user goes offline. Show me how to use the useOnlineState hook from beautiful-react-hooks to detect network status.
Prompt 3
Write a React form that auto-saves draft text to localStorage using beautiful-react-hooks' useLocalStorage hook, and restores it on next visit.
Prompt 4
Show me how to use beautiful-react-hooks' useGeolocation hook to display the user's current latitude and longitude, with an error message if permission is denied.
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