React Desktop macOS Titlebar Component

React Desktop is a popular library to bring the native desktop experience to the web. This library provides macOS and Windows OS components. TitleBar Component is used to allow the users to create a TitleBar with controls like Maximize, Minimize, Resize and Close. We can use the following approach in ReactJS to use the React Desktop macOS TitleBar Component.

TitleBar Props:

• controls: It is used to set controls visibility which is present in the title bar.
• inset: It is used to set the title bar controls state to be inset.
• isFullscreen: It is used to set the TitleBar to fullscreen.
• onCloseClick: It is a callback function that is triggered with the click of the close button.
• onMaximizeClick: It is a callback function that is triggered with the click of the maximize button.
• onMinimizeClick: It is a callback function that is triggered with the click of the minimize button.
• onResizeClick: It is a callback function that is triggered with the click of the resize button.
• title: It is used to set the title bar title.
• transparent: It is used to set the titlebar background transparent.

Creating React Application And Installing Module:

• Step 1: Create a React application using the following command:

  npx create-react-app foldername

• Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command:

  cd foldername

• Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required module using the following command:

  npm install react-desktop

Project Structure: It will look like the following.

Project Structure

Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code.

App.js

import React from 'react'
import { TitleBar } from 'react-desktop/macOs';

export default function App() {
  return (
    <div style={{
      display: 'block', width: 400, paddingLeft: 30
    }}>
      <h4>React Desktop macOS TitleBar Component</h4>
      <TitleBar
        title="My TitleBar"
        controls
      />
    </div>
  );
}

Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:

npm start

Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:

Reference: https://reactdesktop.js.org/docs/mac-os/title-bar

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