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🎨 react-colorful β€” 1,8 KB color picker for React. Fast, dependency-free, customizable, and accessible

Vlad Shilov on October 13, 2020

πŸ“† The Story Several months ago I was searching for an open-source color picker component to use in my React project. I spent a lot of t...
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David Dal Busco

Nice Vlad πŸ‘

We are having a discussion about the future of our color Web Component picker and I really like how you managed to put everything in place.

It can be a source of inspiration for our discussion, so, thank you for the share and work!

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Vlad Shilov • Edited

If you're looking for a web components based solution you should definitely check vanilla-colorful. It has all the benefits of react-colorful. The only thing you need to be aware of is that vanilla-colorful doesn't support IE11 or Edge 12–18.

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David Dal Busco

Not looking for another solution currently and our project, but who knows in the future. Thx for pointing this out and again for the inspiration πŸ‘

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R Z

I am dreaming about writing code supporting donkey 11

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David Dal Busco

We also need some more features such as keeping an history of what users selected for colors in our editor and others stuffs, not to mention that we tend to try to be as much agnostic as possible but, that being said, definitely cool stuffs πŸ‘

Thanks for pointing this out, if it is not for this project, it is worth to know what cool libs exist out there for another one πŸ˜‰

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calag4n

Cool , I'll need it soon !
That's a good initiative and there are still many components that need that update too.

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Vlad Shilov

Thanks!
If you know any other "heavy" popular open-source component, let me know. I would be glad to work on a lightweight version of it.

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R Z

Sometimes it's a good solution because the native browser color pickers suck!

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Dung Tran

Great library. I definitely use it someday

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Vlad Shilov • Edited

Thanks! Glad you like it)