# aweary/react-perimeter

🚧 Create an invisible perimeter around an element and respond when its breached.

Repository: https://github.com/aweary/react-perimeter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-perimeter
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, perimeter, mouse-events
Last push: 2018-04-30T14:29:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3457, "days_push": 3047, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1041, forks 27 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:20.608400+00:00)

## What it is
A React library that renders an invisible padding zone around an element and fires a callback when the mouse enters it. It is commonly used to trigger prefetching before a user actually clicks.

## Use cases
- prefetch data when the mouse approaches a button
- detect when cursor is near an element in react
- trigger actions before user clicks
- add hover intent buffer around interactive elements
- load route chunks on mouse proximity

## When to choose
- you want click-prefetching or proximity-based reactions in a React app
- you need a lightweight mouse-proximity detector with configurable padding

## When to avoid
- you are not using React
- you need a maintained library - it has not been updated since 2018
- you need touch or keyboard-based proximity detection

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, middleware
- domain: frontend, web-development
- platform: browser
- tags: react, mouse-events, prefetching, hover-intent, nodejs

## Member repositories
- aweary/react-perimeter (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.608400+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:02:53.398829+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/aweary/react-perimeter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:20.608400+00:00, sha ba9c06d51596)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-perimeter (fetched 2026-08-29T13:03:49.439756+00:00, sha b3ca1c1c4fd0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.