horizontal-pager

A small, fast, no-dependency, horizontal pager.

Live example

https://localnerve.github.io/ui-elements/dist/horizontal-pager/

Features

1. Horizontal touch or exposed methods move to next/prev pages.
2. Interface allows animated moves by relative distance, or absolute index.
3. Initial render at any page.
4. Uses requestAnimationFrame aligned (decoupled) animations.
5. Does not interfere with other vertical/complex page interactions.
6. Tracks finger when down, then ease-out.
7. Optional continuous scroll (last wraps to first).
8. Edge resistance (for when continuous is disabled).
9. Minimal DOM update approach.
10. Passive event listeners.
11. When navigation certain to complete, calls optional willComplete callback.
12. Optional done callback for notification after navigation complete.
13. A css class identifies scroll level items (pages).
14. ~11k min bundle, ~3k gzip.

Missing Features

1. No touch velocity considerations.

Old Browser Support

To support older browsers, the following polyfills must be supplied by you (polyfills are not supplied with this lib):

• Promise
• requestAnimationFrame/cancelAnimationFrame
• Object.assign
• Math.trunc
• Array.includes

For example, here is the v3 polyfill.io tag required prior to loading/parsing this library:

<script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=Promise,requestAnimationFrame,Object.assign,Math.trunc,Array.prototype.includes"></script>

RAF considerations

Since this uses requestAnimationFrame, you may benefit from knowing that RAF will be suspended by browsers under some conditions. There is an answer here that sheds some good light on this. For example, I discovered via this project's unit tests, that firefox 54 (linux) disables RAF when a "page" (an element identified by options.targetClass) has been scrolled beyond viewport visibility.

API

Top-level API

Instance createHorizontalPager (options)

Returns an API to a horizontal-pager instance, sets the instance options, starts event listening, and renders initial styles on the elements found by the given options.targetClass.
targetClass is the only required option.
Requires a global document to be available when called.

Options

Option Name	Data Type	Description
targetClass	String	The class that identifies the scroll targets (pages in the horizontal-pager). Must be supplied. Scroll targets (pages) must be sibling elements.
[startIndex]	Number	Which scroll target to show initially. Optional, defaults to 0, the first element returned from querySelectorAll on targetClass.
[continuous]	Boolean	True allows scroll to wrap around the ends. Optional, defaults to false.
[willComplete]	Function	A function to call when a scroll will complete shortly (called before completion). For touch, called when scrollThreshold is surpassed and touchend is fired. The function will receive a moveResult object.
[scrollThreshold]	Number	Less than 1, the percentage of width beyond which a touch will cause a complete scroll to the next page. Optional, defaults to 0.35 (35 percent).
[doneThreshold]	Number	The translateX pixel value below which to stop animations. Optional, defaults to 1 (Will not animate below 1px).
[addParentStyles]	Boolean	False disables the automatic adding of styles to the parent of the targetClass elements. Defaults to true. If disabled, you must supply the parent styles.
[done]	Function	A function to call after a scroll has completed. Optional. Redundant if Instance API used. The function will receive a moveResult object.

Instance API

Promise next ()

Moves to the next target as identified by targetClass. If the current target is the end, nothing happens. No arguments. Returns a Promise that resolves after the move has completed. The resolver receives a moveResult object on success, or null if the animation could not be executed because one is already in progress.

Promise prev ()

Moves to the previous target as identified by targetClass. If the current target is the beginning, nothing happens. No arguments. Returns a Promise that resolves after the move has completed. The resolver receives a moveResult object on success, or null if the animation could not be executed because one is already in progress.

Promise moveRel (distance)

Moves distance targets away from the current targetClass. If the specified distance would move out of bounds, nothing happens. A distance of -1 is a synonym for prev. If continuous mode, then absolute value of the distance cannot exceed the number of scroll targets. Returns a Promise that resolves after the move has completed. The resolver receives a moveResult object on success, or null if the animation could not be executed because one is already in progress or the argument is not acceptable.

Promise moveAbs (index)

Moves to the targetClass at the zero-based index. If an out of bounds or current index is specified, nothing happens. Returns a Promise that resolves after the move has completed. The resolver receives a moveResult object on success, or null if the animation could not be executed because one is already in progress or the argument is not acceptable.

targetCount ()

Returns the number of targetClass items found by the horizontal-pager.

currTargetIndex ()

Returns the index of the current target.

prevTargetIndex ()

Returns the index of the previous target.

destroy ()

Stops event listening and any pending animations. Requires a global document to be available when called. No arguments, no return.

moveResult Object

The move animation commands, next, prev, moveRel, and moveAbs return a Promise that resolves to null on failure, or a moveResult object on success. The move result object contains the following properties:

// moveResult
{
  currTargetIndex, // The new, current target index
  prevTargetIndex, // The previous target index
  distance         // The distance moved, eg: -1 for one back, 2 for two forward
}

Parent Styles

Here are the styles automatically added to the parent element of the targetClass scroll target siblings (the pages), unless the addParentStyles option is set to false:

{
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  overflow-x: hidden;
}

If you disable addParentStyles, you must supply at least these styles to a container element of the pages identified by targetClass for horizontal-pager to work.

How To Use

Vanilla JS

See DOMContentLoaded, unload event handlers in the example. Example markup and styles are supplied in the example.

General Usage (frameworks, universal)

Deliver the horizontal-pager.js script with your page. On the server, you will want to deliver the startIndex to the client to initially render the proper targetClass page for the current route. Also, you need to initially render the markup for the targetClass elements (the pages) and their common parent, but not the content of the pages (unless they need to be visible immediately). On the client, give the startIndex and targetClass options to the top-level api function createHorizontalPager prior to the first client render. Also, you should use the willComplete callback to get the page content if it is not already rendered on the client.

Client-side Usage:

1. Call the top-level api function createHorizontalPager (the default export), and give it the options. This starts listening to events, and returns an interface to the horizontal-pager instance.

• Requires a global document to be available.
  • In React, a good place to do this is in componentDidMount.

2. When you're done, call destroy on the horizontal-pager instance to stop animations and events. + Requires a global document to be available.
   • In React, a good place to do this is in componentWillUnmount.