Carallax

This class will create a canvas element to draw a layered parallax effect.

Demo

View on Codepen

Installation

npm i carallax

Usage

HTML

<section class="banner">
    <svg> ... </svg>
    <svg> ... </svg>
    <svg> ... </svg>
    <svg> ... </svg>
</section>

JavaScript

import CarallaxController from 'carallax';

const banner = document.querySelector('.banner');

const Carallax = new CarallaxController({
    depth: 50,
    alignment: 'bottom',
});

Put the canvas into the document

banner.appendChild(Carallax.canvas.element);

We can either load SVGs from the DOM

Carallax.add(banner.querySelectorAll('svg'));

Or we can load images from a URL

Carallax.add('https://example.com/image.png');

The front most layer is always static and will not move on scroll. The static layer needs to be added manually.

banner.appendChild(Carallax.static);

Options

Option	Type	Description	Default
depth	number	The depth of the parallax effect.	50
alignment	string	The alignment of the parallax effect. Can be top, center or bottom.	center
throttle	number	The resize calculations throttle time in milliseconds.	100
dpr	number	The device pixed ratio	window.devicePixelRatio
precision	number	The precision of the parallax effect. (I'd suggest keeping this as low as possible, without seeing a stuttering parallax)	5

Note:

Currently Firefox struggles to call the canvas drawImage method repeatedly. This causes the parallax effect to stutter on larger images / displays. To remedy this I have halved the dpr on Firefox. The "static" layer will render full resolution, while the parallax layers will render at half resolution. This is a temporary fix until I can find a better solution or Firefox fixes the issue. If you have any ideas please let me know.

I have personally found Firefox can perform well with a firefoxDPR multiplier value around 0.5 - 0.75. Any higher than this and the parallax effect will stutter at large scale. It's best to test this on your own project to find the best value for your needs as the lower the value the better the performance, but the image resolution will be lower.

This can be done by adjusting the dpr value based on the browser.

const firefoxDPR = 0.5;
const dpr = (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('firefox') > -1) ? firefoxDPR : window.devicePixelRatio || 1;

new CarallaxController({ dpr });

License

MIT