React Desktop is a popular library to bring the native desktop experience to the web. This library provides macOS and Windows OS components. Box Component is used to allow the users to add a box container-like structure with a label and its content inside the box. We can use the following approach in ReactJS to use the React Desktop macOS Box Component.
Box Props:
- background: It is used to set the background color.
- height: It is used to set component height.
- hidden: It is used to set the component visibility.
- horizontalAlignment: It is used to set the horizontal alignment of the content of the component.
- label: It is used to add label to the Box component.
- margin: It is used to set the outer margin of the component.
- marginBottom: It is used to set the outer bottom margin of the component.
- marginLeft: It is used to set the outer left margin of the component.
- marginRight: It is used to set the outer right margin of the component.
- marginTop: It is used to set the outer top margin of the component.
- padding: It is used to set the padding inside a component.
- paddingBottom: It is used to set the bottom padding inside a component.
- paddingLeft: It is used to set the left padding inside a component.
- paddingRight: It is used to set the right padding inside a component.
- paddingTop: It is used to set the top padding inside a component.
- verticalAlignment: It is used to set the vertical alignment of the content of the component.
- width: It is used to set component width.
Creating React Application And Installing Module:
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Step 1: Create a React application using the following command:
npx create-react-app foldername
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Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command:
cd foldername
- Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required module using the following command:
npm install react-desktop
Project Structure: It will look like the following.
Project Structure
Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code.
App.js
import React from 'react'import { Box } from 'react-desktop/macOs'; export default function App() { return ( <div style={{ display: 'block', width: 700, paddingLeft: 30 }}> <h4>React-Desktop macOS Box Component</h4> <Box label="My Custom Box" padding="15px"> Greetings from neveropen </Box> </div> ); } |
Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:
npm start
Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:
Reference: https://reactdesktop.js.org/docs/mac-os/box
