React useOnWindowResize hook

Angelos Chalaris · React, Hooks, Effect, Event · Dec 1, 2021

Executes a callback whenever the window is resized.

  • Use the useRef() hook to create a variable, listener, which will hold the listener reference.
  • Use the useEffect() hook and EventTarget.addEventListener() to listen to the 'resize' event of the Window global object.
  • Use EventTarget.removeEventListener() to remove any existing listeners and clean up when the component unmounts.
const useOnWindowResize = callback => {
  const listener = React.useRef(null);

  React.useEffect(() => {
    if (listener.current)
      window.removeEventListener('resize', listener.current);
    listener.current = window.addEventListener('resize', callback);
    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener('resize', listener.current);
    };
  }, [callback]);
};
const App = () => {
  useOnWindowResize(() =>
    console.log(`window size: (${window.innerWidth}, ${window.innerHeight})`)
  );
  return <p>Resize the window and check the console</p>;
};

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

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