useMouseState.md

useMouseState

Returns a summary of the mouse current position properties (such as clientX, clientY). It accepts a DOM ref representing the events target (where attach the events to).

If a target is not provided the events will be globally attached to the document object.

Why? 💡

• allow to easily inspect the mouse position
• takes care of adding the mouse events listeners globally or to a defined target
• takes care of cleaning the listener when the component unmounts

Basic Usage:

Provide a DOM ref as first parameter to useMouseState

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { useMouseState } from 'beautiful-react-hooks'; 

const MouseReporter = () => {
  const ref = useRef();
  const { clientX, clientY } = useMouseState(ref);
  
  return (
   <DisplayDemo>
     <div ref={ref}>
       Move mouse over me to get its current coordinates:
       {clientX}, {clientY}
     </div>
   </DisplayDemo>
  );
};

<MouseReporter />

Global events

Avoid providing any argument to useMouseState

import { useMouseState } from 'beautiful-react-hooks'; 

const MouseReporter = () => {
  const { clientX, clientY } = useMouseState(); 
  
  return (
   <DisplayDemo>
     The current mouse coordinates are:
     {clientX}, {clientY}
   </DisplayDemo>
  );
};

<MouseReporter />

Mastering the hook

✅ When to use

• When need to abstract touch related logics into custom hooks(s)

🛑 What not to do

• You can't use the returned handler setter asynchronously, it will not have any effect but changing the handler possibly leading to bugs in your code.
• Absolutely avoid using useMouseEvents handler setters to replace the standard mouse handler props.
• useMouseEvents is meant to be used to abstract more complex hooks that need to control the mouse, for example: a drag n drop hook.
• Using useMouseEvents handlers instead of the classic props approach it's just as bad as it sounds since you'll lose the React SyntheticEvent performance boost.
  
• If you were doing something like the following, please keep doing it:

const MyComponent = (props) => {
  const { mouseDownHandler } = props;
    
  return (
    <div onMouseDown={mouseDownHandler} />
  );
};