/react-cam

HTML5 Web/Mobile camera for ReactJS

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react-cam

npm

HTML5 Web/Mobile camera for ReactJS

Installation

NPM

npm install react-cam

Yarn

yarn add react-cam

How to use it?

props

Prop name Optional Default Description
showFocus Yes false show/hide the blue focus box, basically useless...
front Yes false true: front camera, false: rear camera
capture No None A function to handle base64 string image
width No 480 Camera pixel width, percentage or absolute value
height No 320 Camera pixel height, percentage or absolute value
focusWidth Yes 80% Camera focus box width, percentage or absolute value
focusHeight Yes 50% Camera focus box height, percentage or absolute value
btnColor Yes '#2acef5' Set color of the capture button
onError No Handles camera error, the error object will be passed as the function argument

example

import React, { Fragment, useRef } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Camera } from 'react-cam';

function capture(imgSrc) {
  console.log(imgSrc);
}

const App = () => {
  const cam = useRef(null);
  return (
    <Fragment>
      <Camera
        showFocus={true}
        front={false}
        capture={capture}
        ref={cam}
        width="80%"
        height="auto"
        focusWidth="80%"
        focusHeight="60%"
        btnColor="white"
      />
      <button onClick={img => cam.current.capture(img)}>Take image</button>
    </Fragment>
  );
};
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));