A highly customizable React component for building interactive graphs and node-based editors.
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- Easy to use: Seamless zooming and panning, single- and multi selection of graph elements and keyboard shortcuts are supported out of the box
- Customizable: Different node and edge types and support for custom nodes with multiple handles and custom edges
- Fast rendering: Only nodes that have changed are re-rendered and only those in the viewport are displayed
- Hooks and Utils: Hooks for handling nodes, edges and the viewport and graph helper functions
- Plugin Components: Background, MiniMap and Controls
- Reliable: Written in Typescript and tested with cypress
The easiest way to get the latest version of React Flow is to install it via npm:
npm install react-flow-renderer
This is only a very basic usage example of React Flow. To see everything that is possible with the library, please refer to the website for guides, examples and API reference.
import ReactFlow, { MiniMap, Controls } from 'react-flow-renderer';
function Flow({ nodes, edges, onNodesChange, onEdgesChange, onConnect }) {
return (
<ReactFlow
nodes={nodes}
edges={edges}
onNodesChange={onNodesChange}
onEdgesChange={onEdgesChange}
onConnect={onConnect}
>
<MiniMap />
<Controls />
</ReactFlow>
);
}
Before you start you need to install the React Flow dependencies via npm install
and the ones of the examples cd example && npm install
.
If you want to contribute or develop custom features the easiest way is to start the dev server:
npm start
and the example app via:
cd example && npm start
The example app serves the content of the example
folder and watches changes inside the src
folder. The examples are using the source of the src
folder.
Testing is done with cypress. You can find the tests in the integration/flow
folder. In order to run the tests do:
npm run test
React Flow is developed and maintained by webkid, a data visualization studio from Berlin. If you need help or want to talk to us about a collaboration, feel free to contact us:
You can also use our contact form or join the React Flow Discord Server.
- useUndoable - Hook for undo/redo functionality with an explicit React Flow example
- react-flow-smart-edge - Custom edge that doesn't intersect with nodes
- Feliz.ReactFlow - Feliz React Bindings for React Flow
React Flow was initially developed for datablocks, a graph-based editor for transforming, analyzing and visualizing data in your browser. Under the hood, React Flow depends on these great libraries:
- d3-zoom - used for zoom, pan and drag interactions with the graph canvas
- react-draggable - used for making the nodes draggable
- zustand - internal state management
React Flow is MIT licensed.