react-colorful: A JavaScript repository from long-lazuli

react-colorful is a tiny color picker component for modern React apps.

Features

Small: Just 1,5 KB (minified and gzipped). Size Limit controls the size.
Fast: Built with hooks and functional components only.
Simple: The interface is straight forward and easy to use.
Mobile-friendly: Works well on mobile devices and touch screens.
No dependencies

Live demos

Install

npm install react-colorful --save

Usage

import ColorPicker from "react-colorful";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

const YourComponent = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState("#aabbcc");
  return <ColorPicker color={color} onChange={setColor} />;
};

Supported color models

The default react-colorful's input/output format is a HEX string (like #ffffff). In case if you need another color model, we provide 5 additional color picker bundles.

How to use another color model

Available pickers

Import path	Value example	Size (gzipped)
`"react-colorful/rgb"`	`{ r: 255, g: 255, b: 255 }`	~1,4 KB
`"react-colorful/rgbString"`	`"rgb(255, 255, 255)"`	~1,5 KB
`"react-colorful/hsl"`	`{ h: 0, s: 0, l: 100 }`	~1,2 KB
`"react-colorful/hslString"`	`"hsl(0, 0%, 100%)"`	~1,3 KB
`"react-colorful/hsv"`	`{ h: 0, s: 0, v: 100 }`	~1,2 KB

Code example

import RgbColorPicker from "react-colorful/rgb";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

const YourComponent = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState({ r: 50, g: 100, b: 150 });
  return <RgbColorPicker color={color} onChange={setColor} />;
};

Live demo →

Overriding styles

The easiest way to tweak react-colorful is to create another stylesheet to override the default styles.

.react-colorful {
  height: 250px;
}
.react-colorful__saturation {
  bottom: 30px;
  border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
}
.react-colorful__hue {
  height: 30px;
  border-radius: 0 0 3px 3px;
}
.react-colorful__saturation-pointer {
  border-radius: 5px;
}
.react-colorful__hue-pointer {
  border-radius: 2px;
  width: 15px;
  height: inherit;
}

See examples →

How to paste or type a color?

As you probably noticed the color picker itself doesn't include an input field, but don't worry if you need one. react-colorful is a modular library that allows you to build any picker you need. Since v2.1 we provide an additional component that works perfectly in pair with our color picker.

How to use HexInput

import ColorPicker from "react-colorful";
+import HexInput from "react-colorful/HexInput";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

const YourComponent = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState("#aabbcc");
  return (
    <div>
      <ColorPicker color={color} onChange={setColor} />
+     <HexInput color={color} onChange={setColor} />
    </div>
  );
};

Live demo →

HexInput doesn't have any default styles, but accepts all properties that a regular input tag does (such as className, placeholder and autoFocus). That means you can place and modify this component as you like. Also, that allows you to combine the color picker and input in different ways.

By the way, HexInput is also minimalist-friendly — only 400 bytes gzipped.

Why react-colorful?

Today each dependency drags more dependencies and increases your project’s bundle size uncontrollably. But size is very important for everything that intends to work in a browser.

react-colorful is a simple color picker for those who care about their bundle size and client-side performance. It's fast and lightweight because:

has no dependencies (no risks in terms of vulnerabilities, no unexpected bundle size changes);
built with hooks and functional components only (no classes and polyfills for them);
ships only a minimal amount of manually optimized color conversion algorithms (while most of the popular pickers import entire color manipulation libraries that increase the bundle size by more than 10 KB and make your app slower).

To show you the problem that react-colorful is trying to solve, we have performed a simple benchmark (using bundlephobia.com) against popular React color picker libraries: