useRipple - Material UI ripple effect

Fully customizable, lightweight React hook for implementing Google's Material UI style ripple effect

Installation

npm install use-ripple-hook

Usage

import React from "react";
import { useRipple } from "use-ripple-hook";

function Button() {
  const [ripple, event] = useRipple();

  return (
    <button ref={ripple} onPointerDown={event}>
      Default Ripple
    </button>
  );
}

Options

Default options

useRipple({
  duration: 450,
  color: "rgba(255, 255, 255, .3)",
  cancelAutomatically: false,
  className: "__useRipple--ripple",
  containerClassName: "__useRipple--ripple-container",
  ignoreNonLeftClick: true,
  timingFunction: "cubic-bezier(.42,.36,.28,.88)",
  disabled: false,
  ref: internalRef,
  onSpawn: undefined,
});

Options reference

| Property | Description | Type | Default | Optional | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------- | -------- | | duration | Duration in milliseconds | number | 450 | ✔️ | | color | Color of the ripple effect | string | rgba(255, 255, 255, .3) | ✔️ | | cancelAutomatically | If true, the ripple will begin to cancel after 40% of the duration | boolean | false | ✔️ | | className | The ripple element's class name | string | __useRipple--ripple | ✔️ | | containerClassName | The container element for the ripples | string | __useRipple--ripple-container | ✔️ | | ignoreNonLeftClick | If false, non left click events such as right click and middle click will also trigger ripples | boolean | true | ✔️ | | timingFunction | Transition timing function of the transform animation | string | cubic-bezier(.42,.36,.28,.88) | ✔️ | | disabled | If true, no ripples will be spawned | boolean | false | ✔️ | | ref | Optional outside ref, if unset, internal ref will be used | React.RefObject<T> | undefined | ✔️ | | onSpawn | A callback which is triggered when a ripple is spawned | options.onspawn | undefined | ✔️ |

options.onSpawn

Type

type OnSpawnCB = (ctx: {
  /** the ripple element */
  readonly ripple: HTMLDivElement;

  /** cancels the current ripple animation */
  readonly cancelRipple: () => void;

  /** the ref to the ripple host element */
  readonly ref: React.RefObject<T>;

  /** the event that triggered the ripple (ts: casting required) */
  readonly event: unknown;

  /** the ripple container element */
  readonly container: HTMLDivElement;
}) => void;

Example

useRipple({
  /* ... */
  onSpawn: ({ ripple, ref, event, container }) => {
    console.table({ ripple, ref, event, container });
  },
});

Perfect circle

As demonstrated in the below GIF, useRipple adjusts the circle size to always for the host element's border box.

Higher order function (HOF)

If you want to memoize a configuration for your ripple you can use the built in customRipple() function.

You can override the options you memoized for your custom ripple hook. The two options will be merged.

Usage

import { customRipple } from "use-ripple-hook";

const useMyRipple = customRipple({
  color: "rgb(144, 238, 144, .7)",
  duration: 700,
});

function Button() {
  const [ripple, event] = useMyRipple({}); // Optionally override previous config

  return (
    <button ref={ripple} onPointerDown={event}>
      Memoized Ripple
    </button>
  );
}

This is useful if you want to avoid repetition in your code or if you want multiple different ripple effects for different components.

Examples

A live CodeSandbox is available here.

This repo also ships two runnable example apps under examples/ that consume the package via the pnpm workspace:

• examples/vite-example — Vite 8 + React 19.
• examples/nextjs-example — Next.js 15 (App Router). The hook lives in a "use client" component because it touches the DOM.

See examples/README.md for setup instructions.

Contributing

Contributions of any form are appreciated, opening issues on the Github repository as well as creating pull requests are both welcomed for anyone to do.