• 💡 Why use blank spacer?
• 📦 Installation
• ℹ️ Usage
• 📕 Recipes

Why use blank spacer

A good component should be usable in any layout & context. This means the component should not influence anything outside of it's own children.

Margins however break this rule by defining how much space another component should distance itself from your component. This has made many components difficult to use in certain layouts and also made maintaining the design system very difficult in the long run for my personal projects.

Max Stoiber has written a nice blog post on why we shouldn't use margins and move to spacers.

React Native Blank Spacer is component which can be used to apply blank spaces between components effectively removing the need to apply margins in general 🎉

Installation

#npm
npm install --save react-native-blank-spacer

#yarn
yarn add react-native-blank-spacer

Usage

import BlankSpacer from "react-native-blank-spacer";

const App = () => (
  <View>
    <Text>Hello!</Text>
    <BlankSpacer height={16} />
    <Text>Nice to Meet you!</Text>
  <View>
);

export default App;

Props

height?: number

Height of the blank spacer

width?: number

Width of the blank spacer ﹣ used to apply space when flexDirection: row

color?: color string

Color of the blank spacer

ViewProps

All the existing View props are supported as blank spacer extends the view component

Recipes

• Follow the link to the snack for Simple Usage

• If you want to apply spacing based on the device screen size, you can use the blank spacer with react-native-responsive-dimensions

• If you want a blank space to avoid keyboard (i.e) a keyboard avoiding view, you can use react-native-keyboad-spacer or pair the blank spacer with keyboard height received from useKeyboard hook of react native hooks

Licenses

MIT © DaniAkash