dino-trunk

dino-trunk

Dynamic (dino) truncation (trunk) for React button labels. 🦕

A button’s label steps down through shorter variants as space runs out — all the way to icon-only — and steps back up when room returns, without flickering at the boundary.

 wide   ►  [📄 Download Profile (PDF)]
 medium ►  [📄 Download Profile]
 narrow ►  [📄 Profile]
 tiny   ►  [📄]

▶ Live demo

Install

npm install dino-trunk

Use it

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { useCollapsingLabel } from 'dino-trunk';

function SaveButton() {
  const ref = useRef<HTMLButtonElement>(null);
  const label = useCollapsingLabel(ref, ['Save changes', 'Save', '']);

  return (
    <button ref={ref}>
      <SaveIcon />
      {label && <span>{label}</span>}
    </button>
  );
}

Pass checkpoints widest → narrowest, end with '' for icon-only. That’s the whole API — no container ref, no config, no index math. The button’s parent is measured automatically.

Why not CSS text-overflow: ellipsis?

That clips one string mid-word. This picks between whole alternative labels based on real measured text width, so “Download Profile (PDF)” becomes “Profile” becomes an icon — each a deliberate choice. Shrink/grow use different thresholds (hysteresis), so a label parked near the boundary doesn’t flicker.

More

• Multiple buttons sharing a row — useCollapsingLabels
• Pure core with no React/DOM dependency — pickLevel, availableWidthPerItem
• A string-truncation helper — ellipsize
• Full API reference and recipes — docs/API.md

Development

npm install
npm test         # unit tests for the pure core (vitest)
npm run typecheck
npm run build    # emits dist/ (ESM + .d.ts) via tsc — no bundler

License

MIT © Ooha Reddy

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