react-scroll-fade

React component for scrolling to images with fade in and out.

The only export is the ImageWithFadein component. It renders a hidden image at a desired breakpoint (scrollTo) below the viewport, and when scrolled down to, fixes it to the desired position (imageTop) and unhides it with a ease-in animation. The image will hide again when scrolling up above the breakpoint.

The component takes care of smoothly transitioning to and from the image, so there are no jitters or hops when the image becomes visible. Just a nice and easy fade-in/out.

Usage

import { ImageWithFadein } from 'react-scroll-fade';

const App = () => {
  const imageSrc = './path/to/image.png|gif|jpg|etc';
  return () => {
    <ImageWithFadein
      src={imageSrc}
      centerOffset={-5}
      scrollTo={250}
      imageTop={80}
    />
  }
};

ImageWithFadein uses the CSS viewheight unit to position itself. It is best to set the height of the page in viewheight units vh to be greater than what the scrollTo prop is set to (the image height should be considered as well). This ensures that the image can actually be scrolled to.

Props

• src url of image
• height height of image
• width width of image
• scrollTo position in vh of image before coming into view. For best results, this should be greater than 100
• imageTop fixed position in vh of image when in view. The top of the image will be at this position in the viewport. For best results, this should be between 0 and 100
• centerOffset default: 0 % of viewwidth off center (0) with left offset - and right offset +. By default, the image is centered. Use this prop to position it horizontally.

Future

• Implement ImageWithFadein using IntersetionObserver API
• Add a non-fixed option
• Add a end-fixed-after-scroll option
• Add different animation types
• Allow control of animations