React Countdown Circle Timer

React countdown timer component in a circle shape with color and progress animation.

Features

⚡ Performance optimized with single requestAnimationFrame loop to animate color and progress
🌈 Transition between colors during the countdown
🏰 Fully customizable content in the center of the circle

Install

yarn add react-countdown-circle-timer

Usage

Component

Check the CodeSandbox demo to get started.

import { CountdownCircleTimer } from 'react-countdown-circle-timer'

const UrgeWithPleasureComponent = () => (
  
    {({ remainingTime }) => remainingTime}
  
)

Hook

The package exports a hook useCountdown, which accepts the same props as the component and returns all props needed to render your own circle.

import { useCountdown } from 'react-countdown-circle-timer'

const {
  path,
  pathLength,
  stroke,
  strokeDashoffset,
  remainingTime,
  elapsedTime,
  size,
  strokeWidth,
} = useCountdown({ isPlaying: true, duration: 7, colors: '#abc' })

Props

Browser support

The component and hook support all modern browsers targeting ES6. Internet Explorer (IE) is not longer supported.

Recipes

Changing duration prop

Once the component is mounted the duration prop can be changed the the timer will respect the new duration. In case the new duration is bigger than the previous one then the timer will continue to the new duration. In case the new duration is smaller then the previous one then the timer will be over. If you want to restart the timer when the duration changes then pass a new key prop to CountdownCircleTimer component and the timer will start over with the new values provided.

Restart timer at any given time

Pass a key prop to CountdownCircleTimer and change the key when the timer should be restarted. Check this demo to find out one possible implementation.

Repeat timer when countdown is completed

Return an object from onComplete handler, which indicates if the animation should be repeated. Example:

const UrgeWithPleasureComponent = () => (
   {
      // do your stuff here
      return { shouldRepeat: true, delay: 1.5 } // repeat animation in 1.5 seconds
    }}
  />
)

Set the initial remaining time different then the duration provided

Pass the remaining time to initialRemainingTime prop. Example:

const UrgeWithPleasureComponent = () => (
  
)

In the example above, the countdown will start at 15 seconds (one quarter before it's done) and it will animate for 15 seconds until it reaches 0.

Time formatting functions

children prop of CountdownCircleTimer component will receive as a prop remainingTime in seconds. Below are a few functions that can be used to get different time formatting:

• Format mm:ss (minutes and seconds)

const children = ({ remainingTime }) => {
  const minutes = Math.floor(remainingTime / 60)
  const seconds = remainingTime % 60

  return `${minutes}:${seconds}`
}

• Format hh:mm:ss (hours, minutes and seconds)

const children = ({ remainingTime }) => {
  const hours = Math.floor(remainingTime / 3600)
  const minutes = Math.floor((remainingTime % 3600) / 60)
  const seconds = remainingTime % 60

  return `${hours}:${minutes}:${seconds}`
}

Add a11y support

• Wrapper the timer in an element and add the following attribute aria-label={your-aria-label}
• Add the following element with role="timer" to your children function that will make the screen reader read the remaining time while the timer is running.

const children = ({ remainingTime }) => (
  <div aria-live="assertive" role="timer">
    {remainingTime} seconds
  </div>
)

Add gradient

Define the SVG gradient outside the Timer component and pass the gradient ID to the Timer component as a single color:

<svg>
  <defs>
    <linearGradient y2="0" x2="0" y1="0" x1="1" id="your-unique-id">
      <stop offset="5%"></stop>
      <stop offset="95%"></stop>
    </linearGradient>
  </defs>
</svg>

  {({ remainingTime }) =&gt; remainingTime}

Slide down time animation

Check the CodeSandbox demo to find out how you can implement it yourself

Days, hours, minutes, seconds countdown

Check the CodeSandbox demo for one possible solution