Top 4 Toasts: The Unsung Heroes of User Notifications

Toast notifications are the silent but impactful communicators that tell your users what's up—without overstaying their welcome.

Whether you're celebrating a successful operation or showing a friendly error message, toasts are your solution.

Here’s a look at some popular JavaScript libraries that make implementing toasts a breeze, sorted by user favorites (stars).

4. Toastify.js

• GitHub Stars: 2.3k
• About: Pure JavaScript library for better notification messages.
• Why It's Great: If you’re all about simplicity and keeping things light, Toastify.js is a stellar choice. With no fancy dependencies or complex setup, it’s perfect for developers who want an elegant solution without the extra bloat.

Features:

• Minimal and straightforward.
• Easily add gradients or background images to your toast.
• Position notifications anywhere on the screen.
• Supports actions like clickable links.

🚀 Get Started:
Toastify.js Demo

apvarun / toastify-js

Pure JavaScript library for better notification messages

Toastify

Toastify is a lightweight, vanilla JS toast notification library.

Demo

Click here

Features

• Multiple stacked notifications
• Customizable
• No blocking of execution thread

Customization options

• Notification Text
• Duration
• Toast background color
• Close icon display
• Display position
• Offset position

Installation

Toastify now supports installation via NPM

• Run the below command to add toastify-js to your existing or new project.

npm install --save toastify-js

or

yarn add toastify-js -S

• Import toastify-js into your module to start using it.

import Toastify from 'toastify-js'

You can use the default CSS from Toastify as below and later override it or choose to write your own CSS.

import "toastify-js/src/toastify.css"

Adding ToastifyJs to HTML page using the traditional method

To start using Toastify, add the following CSS on to your page.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/toastify-js/src/toastify.min.css">

And the script at the bottom of the page

<

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3. React Hot Toast

• GitHub Stars: 10k
• About: Smoking Hot React Notifications 🔥
• Why It's Great: Built specifically for React, this library delivers hot, customizable, and lightweight notifications that blend seamlessly with your React apps.

Features:

• 🔥 Hot by default.
• 🎡 Promise API for automatic loaders based on promises.
• 🔧 Easily customizable.
• 👌 Lightweight—less than 5KB (including styles).

🚀 Get Started:
React Hot Toast Demo

timolins / react-hot-toast

Smoking Hot React Notifications 🔥

Smoking hot Notifications for React.

Lightweight, customizable and beautiful by default.

Website · Documentation · Twitter

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Features

• 🔥 Hot by default
• 🔩 Easily Customizable
• ⏳ Promise API - Automatic loader from a promise
• 🕊 Lightweight - less than 5kb including styles
• ✅ Accessible
• 🤯 Headless Hooks - Create your own with useToaster()

Installation

With pnpm

pnpm add react-hot-toast

With NPM

npm install react-hot-toast

Getting Started

Add the Toaster to your app first. It will take care of rendering all notifications emitted. Now you can trigger toast() from anywhere!

import toast, { Toaster } from 'react-hot-toast';
const notify = () => toast('Here is your toast.');

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={notify}>Make me a toast</button>
      <Toaster />
    </div>
  )

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2. Toastr

• GitHub Stars: 12k
• About: Simple JavaScript toast notifications.
• Why It's Great: Toastr has been around for years and is known for its robust customization options. If you need flexibility and high configurability, Toastr is your best friend.

Features:

• Supports extensive customization options for colors, animations, and positions.
• Highly flexible API.
• Works with vanilla JavaScript and frameworks like jQuery.

🚀 Get Started:
Toastr Demo

CodeSeven / toastr

Simple javascript toast notifications

toastr

toastr is a Javascript library for non-blocking notifications. jQuery is required. The goal is to create a simple core library that can be customized and extended.

Browser testing provided by BrowserStack.

Current Version

2.1.4

Demo

• Demo can be found at http://codeseven.github.io/toastr/demo.html
• Demo using FontAwesome icons with toastr

CDNs

Toastr is hosted at cdnjs and jsdelivr

Debug

• //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/toastr.js/latest/toastr.css

Minified

• //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/toastr.js/latest/toastr.min.js
• //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/toastr.js/latest/toastr.min.css

Install

NuGet Gallery

Install-Package toastr

Bower

bower install toastr

npm

npm install --save toastr

yarn

yarn add toastr

Ruby on Rails

# Gemfile

gem 'toastr-rails'

# application.coffee

#= require toastr

// application.scss

@import "toastr";

Wiki and Change Log

Wiki including Change Log

Breaking Changes

Animation Changes

The following animations options have been deprecated and should be replaced:

• Replace options.fadeIn with options.showDuration
• Replace options.onFadeIn with options.onShown
• Replace options.fadeOut with options.hideDuration
• Replace options.onFadeOut with options.onHidden

Quick Start

3 Easy Steps

For other API calls, see the demo…

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1. React Toastify

• GitHub Stars: 13k
• About: Extremely customizable and loved by many.
• Why It's Great: React Toastify takes the crown for ease of use and design elegance. Setting up notifications takes less than 10 seconds, making it a developer favorite.

Features:

• Super easy to customize.
• RTL support for multilingual apps.
• Swipe-to-close functionality (with customizable directions).
• Comes beautiful by default but allows extensive styling options.

🚀 Get Started:
React Toastify Demo

fkhadra / react-toastify

React notification made easy 🚀 !

React-Toastify

🎉 React-Toastify allows you to add notifications to your app with ease.

Installation

$ npm install --save react-toastify
$ yarn add react-toastify

  import React from 'react';

  import { ToastContainer, toast } from 'react-toastify';
  
  function App(){
    const notify = () => toast("Wow so easy!");

    return (
      <div>
        <button onClick={notify}>Notify!</button>
        <ToastContainer />
      </div>
    );
  }

Documentation

Check the documentation to get you started!

Features

• Easy to set up for real, you can make it work in less than 10sec!
• Super easy to customize
• RTL support
• Swipe to close 👌
• Can choose swipe direction
• Super easy to use an animation of your choice. Works well with animate.css for example
• Can display a react component inside the toast!
• Has onOpen and onClose hooks. Both can access…

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Final Thoughts

Whether you’re looking for simplicity or seeking advanced features, there’s a toast library out there for you:

• Keep it simple? Go for Toastify.js.
• React enthusiast? Try React Hot Toast or React Toastify.
• Customization king? Check out Toastr.

What’s your favorite toast library? Share your thoughts (and maybe a toast-worthy success story) in the comments below!

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