Custom React hook for listening to scroll events

useScroll.js

/**
 * useScroll React custom hook
 * Usage:
 *    const { scrollX, scrollY, scrollDirection } = useScroll();
 */

import { useState, useEffect } from "react";

export function useScroll() {
  const [lastScrollTop, setLastScrollTop] = useState(0);
  const [bodyOffset, setBodyOffset] = useState(
    document.body.getBoundingClientRect()
  );
  const [scrollY, setScrollY] = useState(bodyOffset.top);
  const [scrollX, setScrollX] = useState(bodyOffset.left);
  const [scrollDirection, setScrollDirection] = useState();

  const listener = e => {
    setBodyOffset(document.body.getBoundingClientRect());
    setScrollY(-bodyOffset.top);
    setScrollX(bodyOffset.left);
    setScrollDirection(lastScrollTop > -bodyOffset.top ? "down" : "up");
    setLastScrollTop(-bodyOffset.top);
  };

  useEffect(() => {
    window.addEventListener("scroll", listener);
    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener("scroll", listener);
    };
  });

  return {
    scrollY,
    scrollX,
    scrollDirection
  };
}

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import React, {useRef, useEffect} from 'react';

const useComponentScrollHook = (callBack) => {
  const ref = useRef(null);

  useEffect(() => {
    if (ref.current && callBack) {
      ref.current.addEventListener('scroll', callBack);
    }

    return () => {
      if (ref.current && callBack) {
        ref.current.removeEventListener('scroll', callBack);
      }
    };
  }, [ref, callBack]);

  return ref;
};

export default useComponentScrollHook;

 const scrollCallback = useCallback((e) => {
    const maxScroll = e.target.scrollHeight - e.target.offsetHeight;
    const scrollTop = e.target.scrollTop;
    const difference = maxScroll - scrollTop;
    if (difference <= 0 && !finished) {
      fetchData();
    }
  }, [finished, fetchData])

  const ref = useComponentScrollHook(scrollCallback);```

Only register 'scroll' event one time:

import { useState, useEffect, useCallback } from 'react'

export const useScroll = () => {
  const [state, setState] = useState({
    lastScrollTop: 0,
    bodyOffset: document.body.getBoundingClientRect(),
    scrollY: document.body.getBoundingClientRect().top,
    scrollX: document.body.getBoundingClientRect().left,
    scrollDirection: '', // down, up
  })

  const handleScrollEvent = useCallback((e) => {
    setState((prevState) => {
      const prevLastScrollTop = prevState.lastScrollTop
      const bodyOffset = document.body.getBoundingClientRect()

      return {
        setBodyOffset: bodyOffset,
        scrollY: -bodyOffset.top,
        scrollX: bodyOffset.left,
        scrollDirection: prevLastScrollTop > -bodyOffset.top ? 'down' : 'up',
        lastScrollTop: -bodyOffset.top,
      }
    })
  }, [])

  useEffect(() => {
    const scrollListener = (e) => {
      handleScrollEvent(e)
    }
    window.addEventListener('scroll', scrollListener)

    return () => {
      window.removeEventListener('scroll', scrollListener)
    }
  }, [handleScrollEvent])

  return {
    scrollY: state.scrollY,
    scrollX: state.scrollX,
    scrollDirection: state.scrollDirection,
  }
}

export default useScroll

Hi,
Really nice what you all did above, my question is the first post made by @joshuacerbito is the updated version after all comments made by the community or anyone came with let's say a "better solution".

Thanks 👍