useTactile

Preview

Installation

npm install echo-ui-core

At a glance

Weight

10.9 KB · 37.5 KB with what it imports (minified and gzipped; React not counted)

Needs

gsap

Keyboard

Space and Enter press and release the element the same way a pointer does; a held key doesn't repeat the press.

Reduced motion

Motion follows each token's own collapse; sound follows the SoundProvider, which mutes under reduced motion by default.

Sound

Whatever each phase names — typically press on the way down and release on the way up. Space and Enter play the same as a pointer.

Usage

import { useTactile } from "echo-ui-core/tactile";

const { ref, handlers } = useTactile<HTMLButtonElement>({
  press: { motion: "press", sound: "press" },
  release: { motion: "pop", sound: "release" },
});
return <button ref={ref} {...handlers}>Record</button>;

Examples

const { ref, handlers } = useTactile({
  press:   { motion: "press", sound: "press" },
  release: { motion: "pop",   sound: "release" },
});
return <button ref={ref} {...handlers}>Record</button>;

useTactile({
  activate: { sound: "select" },
  release:  { haptic: "tick" },
});

useTactile({ press: { motion: { rotation: -3, duration: 0.1 } } });

const x = createSpring(0, springs.snappy, (v) => knob.style.setProperty("--x", `${v}px`));
x.to(120);
// Sent back mid-flight, it keeps its momentum.
x.to(-40);
// Let go of a flick: start from the pointer's speed.
x.to(0, { velocity: 900 });

const { ref, handlers } = useCapPhysics<HTMLButtonElement>({ tilt: 4, sound: true });
return <button ref={ref} {...handlers}>Arm</button>;

const reduced = useReducedMotion();
if (reduced) x.set(120);
else x.to(120);

Accessibility

• Keyboard: Space and Enter press and release the element the same way a pointer does; a held key doesn't repeat the press.
• It adds feel, not semantics: spread its handlers onto a real button (or give the element a role and a name).

Motion & sound

Motion tokens

press, pop

Reduced motion

Motion follows each token's own collapse; sound follows the SoundProvider, which mutes under reduced motion by default.

Sound

Whatever each phase names — typically press on the way down and release on the way up. Space and Enter play the same as a pointer.

Props

Anti-patterns

• Do not re-implement keyboard handling on top of useTactile — Space/Enter parity is built in.
• Do not put a smooth material ease on pixel/LCD elements — use motion.glitch (steppy).
• Do not gate sound on reduced-motion here; the SoundProvider already couples them.
• Never hand-roll a spring, or a requestAnimationFrame ease, for a part the hand can move or redirect: a tween restarts from rest when retargeted, createSpring keeps its momentum.
• Never call a spring's to under reduced motion: createSpring doesn't read the preference, so set the value there (useReducedMotion says when).

Changelog

• v0.3.0 · 2026-10-12 · ChangedEvery item needs echo-ui-core 0.3.0 (all components). The drawn device, readability past AA and the design tests live in core, and the components that use them are built against it, so each item now declares echo-ui-core >=0.3.0 <0.4.0. Update core with the items: npm install echo-ui-core@^0.3.0 (or your package manager's), then npx echo-ui-cli update. An item whose files didn't change is the same code under a new version; the 0.2.0 files stay published.
• v0.2.0 · 2026-10-04 · ChangedComments only, no behaviour change. Comments in the component source used to cite documents, milestones and ticket numbers from Echo's own planning, none of which exist in your project. The citations are gone and the sentences around them stay. Where a comment was only a citation, it now says what it meant. Three development warnings (HardwareButton's engraved/caption checks and StatusDot's missing-label check) also dropped the ticket code at the end of the message. echo-ui diff will show changes in most items; none of them are to code.
• v0.2.0 · 2026-10-04 · ChangedAn item's version is now a function of declared data, not of how the changelog is formatted. The version an item ships under is published once and never rewritten, and it used to be inferred from prose: a regex for a bolded "Breaking" run across the whole unreleased section, and attribution by "does a bullet mention this name in backticks". One breaking entry therefore moved every item that changed that cycle, and an entry explaining that "Menu and Sheet are unchanged here" filed itself as a change to Menu and Sheet — which it really had.
• v0.2.0 · 2026-10-04 · ChangedThe agent brief says Echo has not shipped. llms.txt and the MCP server's instructions led with npx echo-ui-cli init, and that name on npm is a reserved stub with no executable — so a model following the brief wrote an install step that fails with npx's own error. The brief now opens with the caveat, and the docs carry it on every surface that shows a command. One switch (CLI_RELEASED) silences all of them at launch, and a test refuses to let one move without the others. Affects all components only in what the brief says about installing them; no item's props, CSS or rendered semantics change.
• v0.2.0 · 2026-10-04 · ChangedEcho's home is echo-ui.com. The registry, the docs and the packages all move to it from echo.nawwara.studio. Nothing was published under the old host, so no echo.json anywhere points at it and there is nothing to migrate — this is the last release where that is true.
• v0.2.0 · 2026-10-04 · ChangedWeights, line heights, letter-spacing, z-index, border widths and icon sizes come from the theme scales in all components, with the old value as a fallback, so components keep working with echo-ui-core@0.0.1. Strays moved to the nearest step: most by under a pixel; HardwareButton icons are 14/16/20px (were 15/17/19).
• v0.2.0 · 2026-10-04 · FixedContent now reflows into a 320px screen (400% zoom) and survives a doubled browser text size (WCAG 1.4.10, 1.4.4), across all components. Select's 180px floor, NumberField's readout, Segmented and Steps as flex items, EmptyState's grid columns, and Avatar's fixed-pixel disc all gave way; Panel counts its padding inside a width you set (box-sizing: border-box), so a <Panel style={{ width: 220 }}> is now 220px wide overall rather than 260px.