Suggestions for design approach to React app walkthrough - reactjs

I'm about to try to create a walkthrough for a web app created using React. I'm trying to think of the best way to do it, and have been thinking of using things like Material UI's modal component. I'm thinking I should also include some kind of arrow component that points the user to whichever element (button, link, etc) on my page I want them to click next. Also I will want to create a backdrop to fade the screen except for whichever element I want the users attention to be drawn to.
I feel like this must have been done many times before, but I can't find anything from searching. Obviously whenever I Google "react walkthrough/guide/intro" I just get suggestions for teaching basic React.
(NB: I'm not looking to do one of those intro sliders, as I want to provide a more detailed step-by-step)

The keyword your need to search for is 'tour'. Searching on google for 'react tour', I found 2 libraries for you:
React Joyride: https://github.com/gilbarbara/react-joyride | Live Demo
reactour: https://github.com/elrumordelaluz/reactour | Live Demo
Both seem to have similar features:
Instruction modal that explains about an element on the page.
The modal is positioned next to the highlighted element.
The window will scroll down to the highlighted element if it's outside of the viewport.
The element is highlighted to bring more attention while the rest of the page is in the backdrop.
There are steppers on the modal to indicate which step you're on.

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How do I implement a 'scrollspy' nav in React without useRef

I'm currently working on a project with Nextjs and Prismic
From Prismic, I'm fetching an array of slices, which includes the navigation slice and the section slices.
I'd like to implement a full-width horizontal nav bar that starts halfway down the page, sticks to the top and automatically updates to show which section is the currently 'active' section.
Here is an example of what I mean: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/scrollspy/
I've built the nav bar and made it stick to the top, but am now struggling to update it with the active section.
Because each of the sections are slices, it's not possible for me use the useRef hook and get the 'ref' out of the slice and up to the page level.
An alternative I've considered is using querySelectors at the page level and using the onscroll event handler to update the class of the 'active' section. It feels a little bit hacky and I'm a little unsure of exactly how to implement it, but it's the only solution I can think of.
Could anyone please help with this?

React Native - LongPress and display extra information

In React Native, I would like to achieve the following outcome (example):
example1 example2
On Long Press of the image (or touchableOpacity), I hope to display an overlay view of some extra information (could be images or text). The information disappears when the finger leaves the screen. I was thinking if it is something related to overlay view and setState, but I could not find the function where the view only appears during long presses. Is there a way to achieve this? Or is there a module that could provide a solution?
Any help would be appreciated!
If you are using the latest react native version you can use the onPressOut functionality of a pressable component: https://reactnative.dev/docs/pressable.
Trigger the show overlay with the onLongPress (or onPressIn but it's not a good UX) function and then trigger the hide overlay with onPressOut function.
For the overlay I suggest you a cool library like:
https://reactnativeelements.com/docs/tooltip/

material ui, layout component for desktop to mobile responsive transition

I am writing a Single Web App with material ui, that needs to be responsive, but I do not know which is the control where I must allocate the mains component, if it is a grid or a box.
The next image show the main components arrangement in md,lg,xl
The next image show the main components arrangement in sm,xs when width < 960
In the web I found many complex and very difficult to understand layouts, but not find a basic example. Some like "material ui responsive for dummies".
The mobile version, will have a breakpage between the Appbar and Sidenav, both will occupy the full height, and the Map in the second page will fill the screen.
I did it for you with MU Grids and media queries, if you have questions, ask. I am always ready to help. This is codesandbox link. Let me know if it help you.
https://codesandbox.io/s/charming-shirley-oq6l5
Show my codesandbox answering your problem : https://codesandbox.io/s/amazing-sound-1nj87
It display your layout for md lg xl correctly. For xs and sm screens, sidenav & map take full height with a break page between sidenav and appBar
Thanks to both, it solved the main part o what i need.
Also need to implement a change of page.
I forget to mention that the map will be React-Leaflet,
so need to implement a flap button over the map for the mobile version.
The button is for scroll to up, because any finger movement in the map area only will affect the map content.
Do not will have effect in the scroll.
Another thing to implement is the break page concept:
The behaviour of the break page is like when you see a pdf in presentation mode and press
the keyboard button Repag - Avpag, it change all the content and never see the half top and the half down.
Grettings

React swipe navigation

swipeable navigation
Whats the best approach to make link area swipeable left and right?
Ive failed to find ready to use component that allows to do that.
Ive tried to use React Touch SyntheticEvent and transform translateX to navigation bar, but failed with calculations. So question is what are the ways to achieve that and is there any react components that can help me to make this work?
Maybe you need to have a look at there.
Although it only supports element swipeable up and down, you can refer to the code of how the author implements element swipeable with translate3d.
The main idea of swiper is to calculate the position of the element, and when to start translation. You can record scrollHeight/scrollWidth and offsetHeight/offsetWidth when you start move event, and compare the value of them when the event is end. Then you know where is the element, and you can control the transform of the element as you want.
So far as I know, maybe Iscroll is a good solution for you.

Angular Material Design Animation

I'm currently developing a mobile web application with AngularJS, ngAnimate, Angular-Material and UI-Router. I'm following Google Material Design specifications for the UI/UX part.
I'd like to animate a state change 'the Angular way' and especially this 'Parent to child' animation
I've no idea on how to achieve this 'lift & expand' animation.
Thanks for your help !
You have to do it yourself, I guess.
Angular-material is not a magic wand that replicates the animation guidelines of Material Design. Material Design guidelines are simply guidelines, and are loose enough to be hacked — or strictly followed, in the case of Google's Android apps (in-house or not).
My feeling is the angular material team is already pushing like maniacs to bring this awesome tool to 1.0, and will take advantage of the new routing system in Angular 2 to provide some animations like the one you wish to attain out of the box.
But it's the bleeding edge of the bleeding edge, at least for the time being.
Good news seem to be that routes will have their own viewports and sibling viewports.
AngularJS somewhat starts to embrace Polymer's web components concept.
Scroll to "Show me the magic!" on this page, and check these demos. Polymer's ecosystem provides a lot of already-made components to build your app with. It's quite large, and makes you wonder why Polymer doesn't get the same momentum as AngularJS. But I digress...
Option 1
create a custom-made function that gets triggered on a list element being clicked/tapped, to place in your controller (or directive).
Once the user clicks/taps the list element, it triggers the function (console test).
The function should :
retrieve the id of the clicked/tapped item (pass it to the function)
animate : here you have several choices, but here's one : use a ui-router absolute named view (#view_name), and wrap it in a div container with overflow:hidden, that has inital dimensions corresponding to the dimensions of a list item.
Detect the x-y position of the list element that has been clicked (an example, assuming you use AngularJS with jQuery), and you pass it to the "item detail" route (see above), so the rectangle grows with origins corresponding exactly to where the UI is a the moment of the click/tap. The animation shown in the video seems pretty complex: the "item detail page" grows slower on the bottom and faster on the top, when the bottom item is clicked.
Why an absolute named view? Because it will allow, with z-indexing, for the list to stay underneath the "item detail" view, so when the user closes/leaves it, you can roll back your animation, and the rectangle will shrink back to exactly the dimensions and position of the list item. Finally, you transition the opacity:0 and leave the route.
Option 2
Here's a rough mockup of a technique stretching/scrolling an ion-item. It would require to detect the y position of the item, and use ionicScrollDelegate to scroll to it. Also, you would freeze the main scroll so the user get "stucked", until he closes the "detail view", which then releases the scroll.
$scope.toggleStretchedMode = function(itemID) {
$scope.stretched = $scope.stretched === false ? true: false;
if(!$scope.stretched){
$('ion-item').removeClass('stretched');
$ionicScrollDelegate.freezeAllScrolls(false);
}
else
{
$location.hash(itemID);
$ionicScrollDelegate.$getByHandle('mainScroll').anchorScroll(true);
$ionicScrollDelegate.freezeAllScrolls(true);
$('#'+itemID).addClass('stretched');
};
}
A very basic JSFiddle, which needs to be refined (clicked item should scroll to the middle of the screen, then expand).
Note that the JSFiddle only blocks the mousewheel scroll. If seems to block the first swipe, but then the ng-click releases it, so as it is it's far from perfect. You should not only block the list scrolling, but the up and down swipe events.
Also it initalizes badly, only works the second time. But the concept could be something like this.

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