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casesandberg/react-color

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TLDR

A React library offering 13 ready-made color picker components styled after popular design tools like Sketch, Photoshop, and Chrome, drop one into any React app to get a polished color selector without building it from scratch.

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  root((react-color))
    What it does
      13 picker styles
      Drop-in components
      No custom CSS needed
    Design inspirations
      Sketch style
      Photoshop style
      Chrome and GitHub styles
    Tech stack
      JavaScript
      React
      Inline styles
    Use cases
      Design tools
      Settings panels
      Palette editors
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add a color picker to a design tool or canvas app using a Sketch- or Photoshop-style UI.

USE CASE 2

Let users choose a brand or theme color in a settings panel with a single React component.

USE CASE 3

Build a palette editor that presents a familiar color-selection interface without writing picker logic.

Tech stack

JavaScriptReact

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

In plain English

React Color is a JavaScript library that gives web developers a set of ready-made color picker components for React applications. Instead of building a color picker from scratch, a developer can drop in one of the included pickers and get something that looks and works like the color selectors found in familiar design tools. The library includes 13 different picker styles, each modeled after the color picker UI from a well-known product. The options include pickers styled like Sketch, Photoshop, Chrome, GitHub, Twitter, and several others such as a simple block picker, a hue slider, a compact picker, a material design picker, and a swatches palette. A developer can choose whichever style best matches the look of their app. Installation is done via npm with a single command, and using a picker is straightforward: import the component by name and place it in a React component's render output. All styling is handled with inline styles, so no separate CSS file is required. The README is brief and the project is focused narrowly on this one task: providing polished color picker UI components that are easy to drop into a React project.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Using react-color's SketchPicker, build a React component that lets users pick a hex color and displays it as a live preview swatch below the picker.
Prompt 2
I'm using react-color's ChromePicker in my React app. Write code to store the selected color in component state and apply it as the background color of a div.
Prompt 3
Show me how to use react-color's SwatchesPicker to let users choose from a fixed set of brand colors and output the chosen hex value via a callback.
Prompt 4
I want a compact color picker in a React sidebar. Show me how to use react-color's CompactPicker and pass the selected color up to a parent component.
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