grungnet/src/hooks/usePortal.ts
Mitchell McCaffrey c7b8990a7b Typescript
2021-07-16 16:58:14 +10:00

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import { useRef, useEffect } from "react";
// Based on https://www.jayfreestone.com/writing/react-portals-with-hooks/
/**
* Creates DOM element to be used as React root.
* @returns {HTMLElement}
*/
function createRootElement(id: string) {
const rootContainer = document.createElement("div");
rootContainer.setAttribute("id", id);
return rootContainer;
}
/**
* Appends element as last child of body.
* @param {HTMLElement} rootElem
*/
function addRootElement(rootElem: HTMLElement) {
if (document.body.lastElementChild) {
document.body.insertBefore(
rootElem,
document.body.lastElementChild?.nextElementSibling
);
}
}
/**
* Hook to create a React Portal.
* Automatically handles creating and tearing-down the root elements (no SRR
* makes this trivial), so there is no need to ensure the parent target already
* exists.
* @example
* const target = usePortal(id, [id]);
* return createPortal(children, target);
* @param {String} id The id of the target container, e.g 'modal' or 'spotlight'
* @returns {HTMLElement} The DOM node to use as the Portal target.
*/
function usePortal(id: string): HTMLElement {
const rootElemRef = useRef<HTMLElement | null>(null);
useEffect(
function setupElement() {
// Look for existing target dom element to append to
const existingParent: HTMLElement | null = document.querySelector(
`#${id}`
);
// Parent is either a new root or the existing dom element
const parentElem = existingParent || createRootElement(id);
// If there is no existing DOM element, add a new one.
if (!existingParent) {
addRootElement(parentElem);
}
// Add the detached element to the parent
rootElemRef.current && parentElem.appendChild(rootElemRef.current);
return function removeElement() {
rootElemRef.current && rootElemRef.current.remove();
if (parentElem.childNodes.length === -1) {
parentElem.remove();
}
};
},
[id]
);
/**
* It's important we evaluate this lazily:
* - We need first render to contain the DOM element, so it shouldn't happen
* in useEffect. We would normally put this in the constructor().
* - We can't do 'const rootElemRef = useRef(document.createElement('div))',
* since this will run every single render (that's a lot).
* - We want the ref to consistently point to the same DOM element and only
* ever run once.
* @link https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-faq.html#how-to-create-expensive-objects-lazily
*/
function getRootElem() {
if (!rootElemRef.current) {
rootElemRef.current = document.createElement("div");
}
return rootElemRef.current;
}
return getRootElem();
}
export default usePortal;