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React Native Draggable Pan Pinch

A React Native component for draggable, pannable, pinch-to-zoom, and optional rotation gestures.

Timeline

2025.03 - Present

Role

Package author, API design, gesture implementation, documentation, and npm publishing.

Outcome

Packaged reusable mobile gesture behavior into a public npm library that other React Native apps can install.

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Overview

A React Native component for draggable, pannable, pinch-to-zoom, and optional rotation gestures.

Why it mattered

Mobile products often need direct manipulation for images, documents, maps, and diagrams without rebuilding gesture behavior from scratch.

Key decision

Expose a small wrapper component with configurable gesture limits, action buttons, and state callbacks instead of forcing consumers into a rigid viewer UI.

Hard part

Combining pan, pinch, and optional rotation meant keeping gesture state predictable while still allowing flexible content inside the component.

Outcome

Packaged reusable mobile gesture behavior into a public npm library that other React Native apps can install.

My contribution

Role: Package author, API design, gesture implementation, documentation, and npm publishing.

  • Designed the component API around common viewer use cases such as images, documents, maps, and diagrams.
  • Implemented pan, pinch-to-zoom, optional rotation, reset behavior, and action button customization.
  • Published the package to npm with installation notes, usage examples, and prop documentation.

Outcome

  • Created a reusable package for adding mobile direct-manipulation gestures.
  • Made gesture-heavy React Native interfaces faster to prototype and integrate.

Tech stack

React NativeTypeScriptGesture HandlerReanimatednpm

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React Native Draggable Pan Pinch

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A React Native component for draggable, pannable, pinch-to-zoom, and optional rotation gestures.

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Implementation notes

Combining pan, pinch, and optional rotation meant keeping gesture state predictable while still allowing flexible content inside the component.

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