fkhadra/react-toastify

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Mindmap

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  root((repo))
    What it does
      Shows toast messages
      Auto-dismisses
      Swipe to dismiss
    Customization
      Colors and styles
      Animations
      Dark mode
    Integration
      One npm install
      Single container component
      Toast function call
    Audience
      React developers
      Web app builders

mindmap root((repo)) What it does Shows toast messages Auto-dismisses Swipe to dismiss Customization Colors and styles Animations Dark mode Integration One npm install Single container component Toast function call Audience React developers Web app builders

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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add 'file saved' or 'error' notifications to any React app without building a custom popup component.

USE CASE 2

Display a React component inside a notification, such as a small action button or icon.

USE CASE 3

Limit and stack multiple notifications so they don't overwhelm the user on screen.

USE CASE 4

Show a countdown progress bar on a toast and pause it when the browser window loses focus.

Tech stack

TypeScriptReactJavaScript

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

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

In plain English

React-Toastify is a library for React, the popular JavaScript tool for building web interfaces. Its job is to show toast notifications: those brief pop-up messages that slide into a corner of the screen to inform the user that something happened, like "changes saved" or "file uploaded," then disappear on their own after a few seconds. The name comes from the visual resemblance to a piece of toast popping up. The README emphasizes how little work it takes to add. You install the package with one npm or yarn command, drop a single container component somewhere in your app's layout, and then call the toast function wherever you want a notification to appear. The minimal example in the README is a button that, when clicked, shows the message "Wow so easy!" Beyond the basics, the README lists a long set of features. Notifications can be customized in color, style, and animation. There is right-to-left text support for languages like Arabic. Users can swipe a toast away, and you can control which direction the swipe goes. You can show a full React component inside a toast, not just plain text. Callbacks fire when a toast opens or closes. You can remove or update a toast from code, limit how many appear at once, and stack multiple notifications neatly on top of each other. Smaller details include a progress bar that shows how much time remains before a toast auto-dismisses, the option to pause that timer when the browser window loses focus or programmatically, and a dark mode. A live demo and full documentation are linked from the README. The project is supported by code contributors and financial backers through Open Collective. It is licensed under MIT, which means free to use in commercial projects. Release notes for each version are available on the GitHub releases page.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1

Show me how to add a success toast notification in my React app using react-toastify when a form is submitted successfully.

Prompt 2

How do I configure react-toastify to show at most 3 notifications at once and stack them in the top-right corner?

Prompt 3

Write a React component that shows an error toast with a retry button inside the notification using react-toastify.

Prompt 4

How do I update or dismiss a toast programmatically in react-toastify when an API call completes?

Prompt 5

Show me how to add a progress bar that pauses on hover and enable dark mode in react-toastify.

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