Gutenberg Sortable

A Gutenberg component to turn anything into an animated, touch- and a11y-friendly sortable list. Like these images in a block with desktop wallpapers:

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Features

• Locked axises
• Events
• Smooth animations
• Auto-scrolling
• Horizontal, vertical and grid lists
• Touch support 👌
• Keyboard support 💪

Installation

Using npm: $ npm install gutenberg-sortable --save

And then, using a module bundler that supports ES2015 modules (like webpack):

import Sortable from 'gutenberg-sortable';
 
//or, if you're not using ES6:
var Sortable = require('gutenberg-sortable');

Usage

Here's a basic example of the Sortable gutenberg component, used in a block.

    //... skipping the usual registerBlockType settings, and getting straight to the attributes:
    attributes: {
        images: {
            source: 'query',
            selector: 'img',
            query: {
                url: { source: 'attribute', attribute: 'src' },
                alt: { source: 'attribute', attribute: 'alt' }
            }
        }
    },
    edit( props ) {
 
        let images = ( !props.attributes.images ? [] : props.attributes.images );
        const { className, setAttributes } = props
 
        return (
            <div className={className}>
                <Sortable
                    className="gallery"
                    items={images}
                    axis="grid"
                    onSortEnd={ ( images ) => setAttributes({ images }) }
                >
                    {images.map((image) =>
                        <img src={image.url} alt={image.alt} class="gallery-image" />
                    )}
                </Sortable>
            </div>
        )
    },
    //... rest of the block logic

Let's break that down:

Attributes

When you register an attribute to work with Sortable, it's probably easiest to use a source: 'query' attribute. This makes it so you can just add html or components to your Sortable.

Sortable

Sortable is meant as a wrapper. Wrap it around everything you'd like to be sortable. It will add a parent div around all the children. You should also pass the attribute (in this case images) as a prop called "items". This ensures you will get back the re-sorted prop in your sortable events.

There's a few options you can pass the component:

axis - The axis you'd like to sort on. This example is set to 'grid', but X and Y are also available. Y is the default.

onSortStart - What to do when sorting starts. This is a function that will get the node and it's index plus the event as it's properties returned. A simple example for this:

const highlight = ({node, index}, event) => {
    node.classList.add('highlight');
    console.log( 'the element you\'ve picked up has an index of '+index );
}
 
<Sortable onSortStart={highlight}>

This will give the picked up node a "highlight" class and log a message with the nodes current index.

onSortEnd - What to do when sorting has finished. This function will return the items you passed along as a prop, but now reordered according to the users' action. In the basic example above we just reset the attribute with the new sorted values.

Dependencies

Gutenberg Sortable depends on the react-sortable-hoc package by Claudéric Demers.

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Contributions

All help is welcome! Please live your feature- and/org pull-request here! 😉