🛣️ react-use-path

Sacercode's founder, edocode created this React hook for managing and navigating paths represented as JavaScript arrays. Ideal for creating navigation interfaces, breadcrumbs, or file explorers.

🌐 Live Demo

Try the interactive example ! 😊

🏗️ Installation

npm install @sacercode/react-use-path

Or from GitHub 😺+🐙:

npm install git+https://github.com/Sacercode/react-use-path.git

⚙️ Usage and config

import React from 'react'
import { usePath } from '@sacercode/react-use-path'

const MyComponent = () => {
    const { currentPath, currentPathString, goTo, goBack, goHome } = usePath(
        (newPath) => {
            console.log('Path changed:', newPath)
        }
    )

    return (
        <div>
            <div>Current path: /{currentPathString}</div>
            <div>Path, separated by commas : {currentPath.join(", ")}</div>
            
            {/* Relative navigation */}
            <button onClick={() => goTo('documents/photos')}>
                Go to documents/photos
            </button>
            
            {/* Absolute navigation */}
            <button onClick={() => goTo('/users/john/downloads')}>
                Go to /users/john/downloads
            </button>
            
            {/* Navigating to parent folders */}
            <button onClick={() => goTo('../videos')}>
                Go to sibling videos folder
            </button>
            
            <button onClick={goBack}>Go back</button>
            <button onClick={goHome}>Go home</button>
        </div>
    )
}

API

The usePath hook returns an object with :

• currentPath : string[] - The current path as a string array
• goTo(path: string) : Navigate to given path
  • Relative path : "folder1/folder2" adds to current path
  • Absolute path : "/folder1/folder2" replace current path
  • Allows parent folder (..) and current one (.)
• goBack(index?: number) : Go back to previous path or to specific index (starting from 0)
• goHome() : Returns to root. ([])
• setCurrentPath(path: string[]) : Defines a new path from an array

Paths examples

Type	Example	Result
Relative	"documents/photos"	Adds to current path
Absolu	"/documents/photos"	Replace the current path
Parent	"../videos"	Get back once and goes into the videos folder
Complex	"/users/../home/./docs"	Goes to/home/docs
Root	"/"	Get back to the root level []

See /example/src/App.jsx for a complete example.

🧑‍💻 Development

Installing dependancies :

npm install

Building the library :

npm run build

Tests :

npm test

Development watching file changes :

npm run dev

Testing the example app :

cd example
npm install
npm run dev

🧪 Testing & Coverage

This project maintains 100% test coverage. Run the tests with:

npm test          # Run tests in watch mode
npm run coverage  # Generate coverage report

The coverage badge above is automatically updated and links to the full coverage report.

License

MIT © Sacercode