use-scroll-direction VS react-indiana-drag-scroll

use-scroll-direction https://github.com/AndrzejSala/use-scroll-direction As frontend devs, very often, we come to moment when we need to show/hide something on scroll, eg. topbar or some infobox. Based on the API provided by a browser it's not an easy task, we need to make some computation, store somewhere the previous direction and be sure that everything works correctly vast of browsers. To make our lives a little bit easier, at least for react devs, I created use-scroll-direction, a simple, though very performant hook for detecting scroll direction. Here are some key points:

At first, I was going to use react-indiana-drag-scroll to solve the first problem. And it worked. But I had a feeling that there might be a solution that solved both of these problems at the same time. Searching on libhunt, openbase, and duckduckgo, I found out that this problem is actually very old and the term that better fit my problem was "pan and zoom". Searching with this term, I stumbled upon react-pan-and-zoom-hoc, which helped solve my problem, but it was difficult to fidget with because rather than having a simple component, the component spit out the correct x, y axes translation that would need to be worked into the component's CSS. No bueno. I attempted to jerry-rig this package for two days before giving up and switching to react-svg-pan-zoom, which worked pretty much instantly and was exactly what I needed.