React Material UI Keyboard
Virtual keyboard for TextField when needed
Overview
The react-material-ui-keyboard project presents a virtual keyboard that enhances the user experience with text fields across various applications, including Progressive Web Apps, Hybrid Apps, and more. Although the project is archived due to the need for a complete rewrite to modern standards, it serves as an innovative tool for developers looking to provide a customizable keyboard experience tailored to different platform requirements.
Built with flexibility in mind, this virtual keyboard allows developers to control when it appears, delivering a smoother interaction for users on touch devices, smart TVs, desktops, and compatible JavaScript environments. The integration of Material-UI and React brings together two powerful libraries, providing a solid foundation for building responsive user interfaces.
Features
- Automatic Activation: The keyboard can automatically open when the associated text field is focused, enhancing usability and reducing friction in user interactions.
- Custom Effects Control: Developers can disable all effects, such as ripples and hovers, on keyboard keys, creating a minimalist visual experience if desired.
- Flexible Layout Options: Users have the ability to define multiple keyboard layouts, which can change dynamically when triggered by the 'Keyboard' key.
- Customizable Dimensions: Override the minimum width, height, and symbol size of keyboard keys, allowing for a tailored look that matches the application's design.
- Event Handling: Supports various events such as
onRequestClosefor handling the closing of the keyboard andonInputfor processing input in real-time. - TextField Cloning: The input field is cloned when the keyboard is opened, ensuring that the text entries are seamlessly transferred for an ongoing typing experience.
- Corrector Functionality: Includes binding options for keyboard correctors, allowing for enhanced text correction and input accuracy.
- Express
Express.js is a simple Node.js framework for single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Material UI
material-ui adds classes to Tailwind CSS for all common UI components. Classes like btn, card, etc. This allows us to focus on important things instead of making basic elements for every project.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.