react long press event

Question

Is there a way to add long press event in react-web application?

I have list of addresses. On long press on any address, I want to

Answer 1

Here's a component that provides onClick and onHold events - adapt as needed...

CodeSandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/hold-press-event-r8q9w

Usage:

import React from 'react'
import Holdable from './holdable'

function App() {

  function onClick(evt) {
    alert('click ' + evt.currentTarget.id)
  }

  function onHold(evt) {
    alert('hold ' + evt.currentTarget.id)
  }

  const ids = 'Label1,Label2,Label3'.split(',')

  return (
    

      {ids.map(id => (
        
          {id}
        
      ))}
    
  )
}

holdable.jsx:

import React from 'react'

const holdTime = 500 // ms
const holdDistance = 3**2 // pixels squared

export default function Holdable({id, onClick, onHold, children}) {

  const [timer, setTimer] = React.useState(null)
  const [pos, setPos] = React.useState([0,0])

  function onPointerDown(evt) {
    setPos([evt.clientX, evt.clientY]) // save position for later
    const event = { ...evt } // convert synthetic event to real object
    const timeoutId = window.setTimeout(timesup.bind(null, event), holdTime)
    setTimer(timeoutId)
  }

  function onPointerUp(evt) {
    if (timer) {
      window.clearTimeout(timer)
      setTimer(null)
      onClick(evt)
    }
  }

  function onPointerMove(evt) {
    // cancel hold operation if moved too much
    if (timer) {
      const d = (evt.clientX - pos[0])**2 + (evt.clientY - pos[1])**2
      if (d > holdDistance) {
        setTimer(null)  
        window.clearTimeout(timer)
      }
    }
  }

  function timesup(evt) {
    setTimer(null)
    onHold(evt)
  }

  return (
    

      {children}
    
  )
}

Note: this doesn't work with Safari yet - pointer events are coming in v13 though - https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer