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https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing

The landing page for Twizzle
https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing

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### 🙋‍♂️ Made by [@thekitze](https://twitter.com/thekitze)  



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# Twizzle



✉️️ Landing page for [Twizzle](https://twizzle.app), a desktop app for Twitter DM & composing tweets  



## 🛠️ Setup



It's `CRA 2` with `customize-cra` and `react-app-rewired`.  

The [config file](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/config-overrides.js) is adding/changing the following:



- Add `babel-plugin-styled-components`

- Add `inline-react-svg` to inline svg files (I know CRA has this functionality but you import every file in a specific way)

- Disable ESlint 🤷‍♂️️



## ✅️ Main file

The magic happens in [components/App/index.js](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/components/App/index.js)



## 🐟️ Custom hooks

All of the hooks are in [utils/hooks.js](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/utils/hooks.js)



- `useCanHover` - detect if the device supports hover, if it doesn't, use `onClick` for the "tweeting" button

- `useToggleBodyClass` - toggle a body class based on a boolean. Used to trigger `dark/light` and `scroll/no-scroll` classes on the `body` tag.

- `useGoogleAnalytics` - inserts a google analytics script, but only when the app is ready

- `useMousePosition` - track the mouse position. It's used to detect if the user is over the menu bar, otherwise the tweet composer gets glitchy.

- `useLoadScript` - appends a script tag to the head of the page (used to load the Paddle script after the page is loaded)



I'll move these hooks to [react-hanger](https://github.com/kitze/react-hanger) soon.



## 🏝️ Desert background



- I extracted all the logic for the background in a [Background](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/components/Background/index.js) component

- For the background I'm using 2 different svg images of a desert, a light one and a dark one.

- I tried using them as background images, but they get all weird for some reason

- They are switched using the [DayNightToggle](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/components/DayNightSwitch/index.js).

- I'm using a `desertLoaded` boolean to detect when the dark image is completely loaded, and fade it in (otherwise it would look ugly on slow connections)

- I'm waiting until the [app is ready](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/components/Background/index.js#L17) to start loading the light image, otherwise it's just slowing down the other requests for no reason 



## 🍬️ Intro animation



- All the animation logic is extracted in [this custom hook](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/components/App/use-intro-animation.js)

- It's using [react-pose](https://github.com/Popmotion/popmotion/tree/master/packages/react-pose) for the animations

- It's using [sequence](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/utils/sequence.js) which is a function that I wrote for scheduling state changes. I also used it for the intro animation of [ok-google.io](http://ok-google.io). It goes through the arguments and if it finds a function it calls it, and if it finds a number it's gonna wait with `setTimeout` for the amount of ms. There is more info in [this article](https://medium.com/@kitze/js-coding-challenge-1-test-your-skills-63c2af5446d0).

- It's always enabled in production, but it can be turned off in development using a boolean



## 🌓️ Day/night switch



It's really [nothing fancy](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/components/DayNightSwitch/index.js), just couple of styled divs. I feel a bit guilty because it's completely inaccessible by keyboard users.



## z-index



So, z-index has been driving me crazy for a long time, so I decided to [simplify the logic](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/styles/zindex.js) by ordering all elements in an `order` array and then using `...zIndexFor(ELEMENTS.COMPOSE)` in the styles for the component that needs z-index. Smooth.



## 🖌️ Theming



- The app has a dark and a light mode, and all the logic for them is in [styles/themes.js](https://github.com/kitze/twizzle-landing/blob/master/src/styles/themes.js).

- Other components can use the themes either by destructuring the `theme` prop, or with the following mixins:



- `whenTheme` - It applies style only when the certain theme name is active. Example: `whenTheme('dark', {backgroundColor: 'black})`

- `applyTheme` - It applies certain theme styles to the element. Example: `applyTheme('windowBar')` will get the `theme.windowBar` styles from the current theme

- `getThemeColor` - It reads a certain color from the current theme. Example: `getThemeColor('icon')` will return the icon color for the current theme.



## ⁉️ AMA



Just open an issue if you're interested about anything else in the app, and I'll add it in the readme.