React Marquee Text

MarqueeText is a React component that takes it back to the internet of days gone by. Paying homage to the vintage (and beloved) Marquee element, MarqueeText inserts areas of continuous scrolling text, empowering your retro or brutalist-inspired designs.

Docs / Demo

Contents

1. 📌 Features
2. 🎯 Quickstart
3. 🤖 Commands
4. 🧬 Options
5. 🕹️ Usage
6. 📓 Notes
7. 📅 To Dos

📌 Features

• Built in Typescript.
• Creates continous scrolling animations of text.
• Creates continous loop effect by cloning text to ensure it fills container.
• Uses CSS animation.
• Scrolling animation starts / stops when text is in viewport (by default), via Intersection Observer
• Options to control scrolling direction and duration.

Live Demo→

🎯 Quickstart

Install package from npm

npm i react-marquee-text

Use that thing

import MarqueeText from "react-marquee-text"
import "MarqueeText/styles.css"

function SomeComponent() {
  return (
    <MarqueeText>
      Let's bring it on back to days of yore
    </MarqueeText>
  )
}

Depending on your CSS bundling configuration, you may have to also import MarqueeText's CSS file (which houses the simple @keyframe aniamtion)

🤖 Commands

Install npm i react-marquee-text
Build: npm run build
Dev: npm run dev
Demo Run: npm run demo:start
Demo Build: npm run demo:build
Demo Clean: npm run demo:clean

Dev

Runing dev fires up the docs/demo and begins watching src.

The docs/demo app is bundled with Parcel.js and served at http://localhost:1234/.

Dist

On build, src populates dist with commonjs, es, umd versions of the component.

🧬 Options

Option	Type	Description	Default
children	sring	React children for providing text as string	null
className	string	Defines a parent class name	null
direction	'left' | 'right'	Direction of scroll animation	left
duration	number	Amount of time it takes for original text to complete animation	50
textSpacing	string	Spacing between cloned text items	0.15em
pauseOnHover	boolean	Pauses scroll animation on hover	false
playOnlyInView	string	Only run play animation when component is visible in viewport	true
treshold	number	Intersection Observer value between 0 and 1 representing the percentage component must be visible before stagger animation starts.	0.1
willChange	boolean	Adds will-change to animation to potential enhance animation performance	false

🕹️ Usage

<MarqueeText
  duration={30}
  pauseOnHover={true}
  direction="right"
>
  This be some right scroll text
</MarqueeText>

📓 Notes

Mostly inlined CSS

The package largely uses inlined CSS. Currently, the @keyframes animation is the only declaration housed in an external CSS file. styles.css is imported into the tsx file, but given your bundle setup, you may, or may not, have to handle that import. If the animation doesn't run immediately, try importing react-marquee-text/styles.css directly in your project.

Supports HTML tags

MarqueeText supports HTML elements, so you can wrap your text in spans or divs to style specific words.

📅 To Dos

• Add option to control animation based on scroll position.
• Maybe add some callbacks?
• Maybe add vertical scrolling option?
• Run more robust perf tests. Would js / RAF animation or WAAPI be better, esp for multiple instances?
• Add some proper tests

Have fun ya'll.