React Achievements

Add gamification to your React app in minutes - Track progress, unlock achievements, show badges, and celebrate milestones.

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Installation

npm install react-achievements

Requirements: React 16.8+, Node.js 16+

Start Here

import {
  AchievementProvider,
  AchievementsWidget,
  useSimpleAchievements,
} from 'react-achievements';

const achievements = {
  score: {
    100: { title: 'Century!', description: 'Score 100 points', icon: '🏆' },
  },
};

function Game() {
  const { track } = useSimpleAchievements();

  return (
    <button onClick={() => track('score', 100)}>
      Score 100
    </button>
  );
}

export default function App() {
  return (
    <AchievementProvider achievements={achievements}>
      <Game />
      <AchievementsWidget />
    </AchievementProvider>
  );
}

AchievementsWidget reads from context, shows the unlocked count, and opens a modal with locked and unlocked achievements. Use placement="inline" to put it in a drawer, sidebar, or navigation area. For an exact visual match, pass renderTrigger and use your app's own drawer row, nav item, or profile menu button while the widget still controls the modal.

<AchievementsWidget
  placement="inline"
  renderTrigger={({ buttonProps, unlockedCount, totalCount }) => (
    <button {...buttonProps} className="drawer-row">
      Achievements
      <span>{unlockedCount}/{totalCount}</span>
    </button>
  )}
/>

Common Placements

Use the same context-aware UI in whichever surface already fits your app:

import { useState } from 'react';
import {
  AchievementsList,
  AchievementsModal,
  AchievementsWidget,
} from 'react-achievements';

// Floating launcher in a corner
<AchievementsWidget position="bottom-right" />

// Inline nav, drawer, sidebar, or profile menu item
<AchievementsWidget placement="inline" label="Badges" />

// Compact square badge grid for dense achievement catalogs
<AchievementsWidget density="compact" />

// Optional: blur the page behind the modal
<AchievementsWidget modalBackdropBlur={2} />

// Existing button or drawer row that opens the built-in modal
const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);

<button onClick={() => setOpen(true)}>View achievements</button>

// Optional: hide scrollbar chrome while preserving scroll
<AchievementsModal
  isOpen={open}
  onClose={() => setOpen(false)}
  hideScrollbar
  backdropBlur={2}
/>

// Inline achievements page, panel, drawer, or settings section
<AchievementsList showLocked />

Storybook includes examples for floating buttons, nav buttons, drawer rows, existing controls that open a modal, dashboard cards, profile menus, and inline lists.

Provider-level icons and UI options are shared across notifications, widgets, modals, and lists:

<AchievementProvider
  achievements={achievements}
  icons={{ login: '🔑', streak: '🔥' }}
  ui={{
    theme: 'minimal',
    NotificationComponent: MyNotification,
    ModalComponent: MyAchievementsModal,
    ConfettiComponent: MyConfetti,
  }}
>
  <App />
</AchievementProvider>

Hooks

const {
  track,
  increment,
  trackMultiple,
  unlockedIds,
  unlockedAchievements,
  allAchievements,
  unlockedCount,
  totalCount,
} = useSimpleAchievements();

Deprecated aliases from v3, including unlocked, remain available until 4.2.

Event-Based Tracking

For larger apps, create an engine and emit semantic events:

import {
  AchievementEngine,
  AchievementProvider,
  AchievementsWidget,
  useAchievementEngine,
} from 'react-achievements';

const engine = new AchievementEngine({
  achievements,
  eventMapping: {
    userScored: (data) => ({ score: data.points }),
  },
  storage: 'local',
});

function Game() {
  const engine = useAchievementEngine();
  return <button onClick={() => engine.emit('userScored', { points: 100 })}>Score</button>;
}

export default function App() {
  return (
    <AchievementProvider engine={engine}>
      <Game />
      <AchievementsWidget />
    </AchievementProvider>
  );
}

Headless Usage

Use the DOM-free entry point when building custom UI or preparing a React Native integration:

import {
  AchievementProvider,
  useAchievementState,
  useSimpleAchievements,
} from 'react-achievements/headless';

function CustomAchievementsPanel() {
  const { track } = useSimpleAchievements();
  const { allAchievements, unlockedCount, totalCount } = useAchievementState();

  return (
    <section>
      <button onClick={() => track('score', 100)}>Score 100</button>
      <p>{unlockedCount} / {totalCount} unlocked</p>

      {allAchievements.map((achievement) => (
        <div key={achievement.achievementId}>
          {achievement.isUnlocked ? 'Unlocked' : 'Locked'}: {achievement.achievementTitle}
        </div>
      ))}
    </section>
  );
}

export function App() {
  return (
    <AchievementProvider achievements={achievements}>
      <CustomAchievementsPanel />
    </AchievementProvider>
  );
}

React Native UI components are not included in 4.0; use achievements-engine or the /headless React APIs with your own native UI.

Entry Points

• react-achievements - v4 web API with provider, hooks, built-in effects, widget, modal, and list components
• react-achievements/web - explicit web entry point
• react-achievements/headless - provider, hooks, engine, storage, and types without DOM UI

Migrating From v3

• Built-in UI is now the default; useBuiltInUI is a deprecated no-op.
• AchievementsWidget replaces the legacy manual BadgesButtonWithModal setup.
• useSimpleAchievements() now returns unlockedIds, unlockedAchievements, and allAchievements.
• External UI peer dependencies are no longer required.
• Deprecated v3 component names remain as compatibility wrappers until 4.2.

License

React Achievements is dual-licensed:

• Free for Non-Commercial Use (MIT License)
• Commercial License Required for businesses, SaaS, commercial apps, and enterprise use

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AI Agents

If you're using AI coding agents, see AGENTS.md for the recommended v4 integration prompt.