Reoverlay

A tiny, typed modal manager for React. Reoverlay gives you one top-level ModalContainer and a small imperative API for opening, stacking, and closing modals from anywhere in your app.

Install

pnpm add reoverlay

npm install reoverlay
yarn add reoverlay

Quick Start

Mount ModalContainer once near the root of your app.

import { ModalContainer } from 'reoverlay'

export function App() {
  return (
    <>
      <Routes />
      <ModalContainer />
    </>
  )
}

Create a modal. ModalWrapper is optional, but it provides the default backdrop, animations, outside-click close behavior, and Escape close behavior.

import { ModalWrapper, Reoverlay } from 'reoverlay'
import 'reoverlay/ModalWrapper.css'

type ConfirmModalProps = {
  message: string
  onConfirm: () => void
}

export function ConfirmModal({ message, onConfirm }: ConfirmModalProps) {
  return (
    <ModalWrapper aria-label="Confirm action">
      <p>{message}</p>
      <button onClick={onConfirm} type="button">
        Confirm
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => Reoverlay.hideModal()} type="button">
        Cancel
      </button>
    </ModalWrapper>
  )
}

Open the modal directly.

import { Reoverlay } from 'reoverlay'
import { ConfirmModal } from './ConfirmModal'

Reoverlay.showModal(ConfirmModal, {
  message: 'Delete this post?',
  onConfirm: () => {
    Reoverlay.hideModal()
  },
})

Named Modals

You can configure modal names once and open them later by string. This is useful for app-wide modals, interceptors, and places where importing the modal component would be awkward.

import { ModalContainer, Reoverlay } from 'reoverlay'
import { AuthModal, ConfirmModal } from './modals'

Reoverlay.config([
  { name: 'AuthModal', component: AuthModal },
  { name: 'ConfirmModal', component: ConfirmModal },
])

export function App() {
  return (
    <>
      <Routes />
      <ModalContainer />
    </>
  )
}

Reoverlay.showModal('ConfirmModal', {
  message: 'Archive this item?',
})

API

Reoverlay.config(configData)

Registers named modals.

type ModalConfigItem = {
  name: string
  component: React.ElementType | React.ReactElement
}

Names must be unique within a single config call.

Reoverlay.showModal(modal, props?)

Shows a modal. modal can be a configured string name, a React component, or a React element. props are passed to the modal when it renders.

Reoverlay.showModal(MyModal, { title: 'Hello' })
Reoverlay.showModal(<MyModal title="Hello" />)
Reoverlay.showModal('MyModal', { title: 'Hello' })

Reoverlay.hideModal(modalName?)

Hides a modal. When no name is provided, the last visible modal is hidden. When a name is provided, that configured modal is hidden.

Reoverlay.hideModal()
Reoverlay.hideModal('ConfirmModal')

Reoverlay.hideAll()

Closes every active modal.

Reoverlay.hideAll()

ModalWrapper

ModalWrapper is a small default shell. You can skip it and render your own modal UI if you only want Reoverlay's state orchestration.

import type { ModalWrapperProps } from 'reoverlay'

Prop	Type	Default
animation	'fade' | 'zoom' | 'flip' | 'door' | 'rotate' | 'slideUp' | 'slideDown' | 'slideLeft' | 'slideRight'	'fade'
wrapperClassName	string	''
contentContainerClassName	string	''
onClose	(event) => void	() => Reoverlay.hideModal()
closeOnEscape	boolean	true
aria-label	string	undefined
aria-labelledby	string	undefined
aria-describedby	string	undefined
role	'dialog' | 'alertdialog'	'dialog'

The preferred CSS import is:

import 'reoverlay/ModalWrapper.css'

The legacy import path is still supported:

import 'reoverlay/lib/ModalWrapper.css'

Development

This repo uses pnpm workspaces.

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Useful scripts:

pnpm lint
pnpm typecheck
pnpm test
pnpm build:package
pnpm build:demo
pnpm build:all

The demo lives in demo/ and builds with Vite for GitHub Pages under /reoverlay/.

Release Checklist

1. Update the version in package.json.
2. Run pnpm install --frozen-lockfile.
3. Run pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test, and pnpm build:all.
4. Inspect the package contents with npm pack --dry-run.
5. Publish with pnpm publish --otp <code> if your npm account requires 2FA.
6. Deploy the demo with pnpm --filter reoverlay-demo deploy.

License

MIT