How to detect if screen size has changed to mobile in React?

Question

I am developing a web app with React and need to detect when the screen size has entered the mobile break-point in order to change the state. Specifically I need my sidenav to b

Answer 1

What I did is adding an event listener after component mount:

componentDidMount() {
    window.addEventListener("resize", this.resize.bind(this));
    this.resize();
}

resize() {
    this.setState({hideNav: window.innerWidth <= 760});
}

componentWillUnmount() {
    window.removeEventListener("resize", this.resize.bind(this));
}

EDIT: To save state updates, I changed the "resize" a bit, just to be updated only when there is a change in the window width.

resize() {
    let currentHideNav = (window.innerWidth <= 760);
    if (currentHideNav !== this.state.hideNav) {
        this.setState({hideNav: currentHideNav});
    }
}

UPDATE: Time to use hooks! If you're component is functional, and you use hooks - then you can use the useMediaQuery hook, from react-responsive package.

import { useMediaQuery } from 'react-responsive';

...

const isMobile = useMediaQuery({ query: `(max-width: 760px)` });

After using this hook, "isMobile" will be update upon screen resize, and will re-render the component. Much nicer!

Answer 2

hey I just published a npm package for this issue. Check it out https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-getscreen

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {withGetScreen} from 'react-getscreen'

class Test extends Component {
  render() {
    if (this.props.isMobile()) return <div>Mobile</div>;
    if (this.props.isTablet()) return <div>Tablet</div>;
    return <div>Desktop</div>;
  }
}

export default withGetScreen(Test);

//or you may set your own breakpoints by providing an options object

const options = {mobileLimit: 500, tabletLimit: 800}
export default withGetScreen(Test, options);

Answer 3

Using hooks in React(16.8.0+) refering to: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36862446/1075499

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';

function getWindowDimensions() {
  const { innerWidth: width, innerHeight: height } = window;
  return {
    width,
    height
  };
}

export default function useWindowDimensions() {
  const [windowDimensions, setWindowDimensions] = useState(getWindowDimensions());

  useEffect(() => {
    function handleResize() {
      setWindowDimensions(getWindowDimensions());
    }

    window.addEventListener('resize', handleResize);
    return () => window.removeEventListener('resize', handleResize);
  }, []);

  return windowDimensions;
}

Answer 4

This is the same as @Ben Cohen answer but after attaching your function to eventListner, also remove it on componentWillUnmount

constructor() {
  super();
  this.state = { screenWidth: null };
  this.updateWindowDimensions = this.updateWindowDimensions.bind(this);
}

componentDidMount() {
    window.addEventListener("resize", this.updateWindowDimensions());
}

componentWillUnmount() {
    window.removeEventListener("resize", this.updateWindowDimensions)
}

updateWindowDimensions() {
   this.setState({ screenWidth: window.innerWidth });
}

Answer 5

There are multiple ways to archive this first way is with CSS using this class

@media screen and (max-width: 576px) {}

any class inside this tag will only be visible when the screen is equal or less than 576px

the second way is to use the event listener

something like this

 constructor(props)
    {
        super(props);

        this.state = {
            isToggle: null
        }

        this.resizeScreen = this.resizeScreen.bind(this); 
    }
    
    
     componentDidMount() {

        window.addEventListener("resize", this.resizeScreen());

    }
    
    
    resizeScreen() {
        if(window.innerWidth === 576)
        {
            this.setState({isToggle:'I was resized'});
        }
        
    }

even with the event listener I still prefer the CSS way since we can use multiple screen sizes without further js coding.

I hope this helps!