How To Create A Custom Progress Bar Component In ReactJS?

Progress bars are a key part of user interfaces that shows the progress of tasks such as uploads, downloads, or data loading. In ReactJS, creating a custom progress bar component gives you the flexibility to control its design and functionality to match your application's needs.

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of creating a custom progress bar component in React from scratch.

Prerequisites

• NPM & Node.js
• React JS
• Basic Knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Inline styling in React

Approach

Building a custom progress bar can enhance user feedback in your applications. To create a custom progress bar component in ReactJS we will use the HTML div's. The Progress component will take the parameters as progress, color, and height. The progress will be displayed using the width of the div element.

The <Progressbar /> component should do the following:

• Indicates the progress visually to the user via the colored bar.
• Shows the percentage numerically as a %.
• Props that allow you to change the height, width, and background color of the progress bar.

Basically, the progress bar consists of a parent div, which represents the whole progress bar, and a child div in which the completed part of the bar along with the span will show the completed percentage number.

Props:

• bgcolor: It will change the background color of the progress bar .
• progress:  It will have value between 1 to 100 .
• height: It is used to change the height of the progress bar .

Steps To Create A Custom Progress Bar

Step 1: Create a React application using the following command 

npx create-react-app progress_bar

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

cd Progress_bar

Project Structure

Example: This example implements multiple progress bars with different color and progress provided as parameters. 

Run the application using the following command:

npm start

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