[Question]Can I use this package in a ReactJS project? about react-spatial-navigation HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi, you need to set initial focus somewhere. You can check how it is done in the example app in App.js. Basically your app component also has to be a focusable container, and you need to call "setFocus()" after mount with no params in order to "focus" your app. Then it will find the first child component to pass the focus to.

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Hi!
This package has no hard dependencies on react-native(-web). It only uses react-native-web for the sandbox example project that is in the "App.js". So you can use it with ReactJS by simply wrapping your components in "withFocusable()"

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oh good to know, thanks for the quick reply!
I've made a test component like this:

import {withFocusable} from '@noriginmedia/react-spatial-navigation';

const styles = {
    defaultStyle: {
        backgroundColor: 'pink'
    },
    focusedStyle: {
        backgroundColor: 'black'
    },
};
const Button = ({title, focused, setFocus}) => {
    console.log(`>>>>>>>>>>>>> ${title} is focused: ${focused}`);
    return (
        <div>
            <button style={focused ? styles.focusedStyle : styles.defaultStyle}
            onClick={() => {
                console.log(`button click`);
            }}
            >{title}</button>
      </div>
    );
}

const FocusableButton = withFocusable()(Button);
export default FocusableButton;

and my App.js looks like this:

import {initNavigation, setKeyMap} from '@noriginmedia/react-spatial-navigation';

import FocusableButton from './components/Button';

initNavigation({
  debug: true,
  visualDebug: true
})

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
        <FocusableButton title={'Bt1'} />
        <FocusableButton title={'Bt2'} />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

but I don't see a change on the focused property when navigating with the keyboard arrow keys...am I missing something?

Let me know if you'd prefer to see this in a codesandbox for example.
thanks again, have a great day

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You're absolutely right, making the root component focusable and calling setFocus() inside useEffect works! Thank you so much

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