Headless Context Menu

A versatile and customizable headless context menu React component built with TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Zustand. NPM package here.

Features

• Headless: Create your own styles and markup with full control over appearance
• Built with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS for flexibility and ease of use
• Zustand for simple state management

Installation

Install the headless-context-menu package using Yarn:

1yarn add headless-context-menu

Usage

To see an example of usage check the ./example folder. You can customize the appearance and behavior of the context menu by providing your own markup and styles.

How it works

The headless-context-menu UI kit is built using the following technologies:

• React for the UI
• TypeScript for type safety
• Tailwind CSS for styling
• Zustand for state management
• Headless UI's Transition and Dialog components for handling animations and focus management

The small UI kit is comprised of a few parts:

1. ContextMenu: The main component that renders the context menu when the show state is true. It uses the Transition and Dialog components from Headless UI to handle animations and focus management. The component takes optional className and backgroundClassName properties to customize the appearance.

2. useContextMenu: A Zustand store that manages the state of the context menu, including its visibility, location, and options. The store provides several methods to update the state and clear the context menu.

3. handleContextMenu: A function that handles the context menu logic when a context menu is requested. It calculates the position of the context menu based on the mouse event and ensures that the menu stays within the viewport. It then updates the useContextMenu state with the new location and options.

4. renderOptions: A helper function that takes an array of ContextMenuOption objects and renders them as either buttons or anchor tags, depending on the provided properties. Each option can have a custom className for styling.

5. ContextMenuOption: A type representing an individual option in the context menu. It can be either an object with a name property and an onClick callback function, or an object with a name property and an href string for navigation. Optionally, you can provide a className property for custom styling.

6. ContextMenuState: An interface that defines the shape of the Zustand state for the context menu, which includes properties like show, location, and options, along with methods for updating the state, such as setNewShow, setNewLocation, setNewOptions, and clearContextMenu.

To use the component in your application, simply import and render the ContextMenu component, and use the handleContextMenu function to show the context menu when desired.

1import React from "react";
2import { ContextMenu, handleContextMenu } from "headless-context-menu";
3
4const App = () => {
5  // Define your context menu options here
6  const options = [
7    {
8      name: "Option 1",
9      onClick: () => console.log("Option 1 clicked"),
10    },
11    {
12      name: "Option 2",
13      href: "https://dextrac.com",
14    },
15  ];
16
17  return (
18    <div>
19      <ContextMenu />
20      <div
21        onContextMenu={(e) => {
22          e.preventDefault();
23          handleContextMenu(e, options);
24        }}
25      >
26        Right click me!
27      </div>
28    </div>
29  );
30};
31
32export default App;

You can customize the appearance and behavior of the context menu by providing your own styles. See ./example.