goey-toast

A gooey, morphing React toast component built on Sonner with Framer Motion animations (pill → blob → pill). Use this skill to install the package and write correct usage code in any React project.

When to use

• Adding toast / notification UI to a React app (React >= 18).
• The user mentions "goey-toast", "gooey toast", or wants animated/morphing toasts.
• Replacing raw sonner toasts with the gooey variant.

Install

npm install goey-toast react react-dom framer-motion

Peer deps (must exist in the host app):

shadcn/ui projects

npx shadcn@latest add https://goey-toast.vercel.app/r/goey-toaster.json

Installs a wrapper at components/ui/goey-toaster.tsx and auto-installs deps.

Two required steps to render toasts

1. Mount <GooeyToaster /> once near the app root.
2. Import the stylesheet once at the entry point. Without it toasts render unstyled.

import { GooeyToaster, gooeyToast } from 'goey-toast'
import 'goey-toast/styles.css' // REQUIRED — import once at app entry

function App() {
  return (
    <>
      <GooeyToaster position="bottom-right" />
      <button onClick={() => gooeyToast.success('Saved!')}>Save</button>
    </>
  )
}

API: gooeyToast

gooeyToast(title, options?)         // default (neutral)
gooeyToast.success(title, options?) // green
gooeyToast.error(title, options?)   // red
gooeyToast.warning(title, options?) // yellow
gooeyToast.info(title, options?)    // blue
gooeyToast.promise(promise, data)   // loading → success/error
gooeyToast.update(id, options)      // update an existing toast in-place
gooeyToast.dismiss(idOrFilter?)     // dismiss one, by type, or all

Common options (2nd arg)

<GooeyToaster /> key props

position ('top-left'|'top-center'|'top-right'|'bottom-left'|'bottom-center'|'bottom-right', default 'bottom-right'), theme ('light'|'dark'), closeButton, showProgress, closeOnEscape, maxQueue, queueOverflow ('drop-oldest'|'drop-newest'), dir ('ltr'|'rtl'), spring, bounce, preset, swipeToDismiss, showTimestamp, gap, offset.

Recipes

Description + action button

gooeyToast.info('Share link ready', {
  description: 'Your link has been generated.',
  action: {
    label: 'Copy',
    onClick: () => navigator.clipboard.writeText(url),
    successLabel: 'Copied!', // morphs back to pill after click
  },
})

Promise toast

gooeyToast.promise(saveData(), {
  loading: 'Saving...',
  success: (data) => `Saved ${data.count} items`,
  error: (e) => `Failed: ${String(e)}`,
  description: { success: 'All changes synced.', error: 'Try again later.' },
  action: { error: { label: 'Retry', onClick: () => retry() } },
})

Update in place

const id = gooeyToast('Uploading...', { icon: <Spinner /> })
gooeyToast.update(id, { title: 'Done', type: 'success', icon: null })

Dismiss by filter

gooeyToast.dismiss(id)                       // one
gooeyToast.dismiss({ type: 'error' })        // all errors
gooeyToast.dismiss({ type: ['error','warning'] })
gooeyToast.dismiss()                         // all

Gotchas

• Forgetting import 'goey-toast/styles.css' → unstyled toasts. Most common bug.
• <GooeyToaster /> must be mounted exactly once, near the root.
• update() requires the same id returned from the create call.
• framer-motion is a peer dep — install it explicitly.
• Backward-compat aliases exist (GoeyToaster, goeyToast) for v0.2.x; prefer the double-o names (GooeyToaster, gooeyToast).

Reference

• Live demo & docs: https://goey-toast.vercel.app
• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/goey-toast