jquery-first-event

Execute your event handler before others.

Installation

npm install --save jquery-first-event

Example

$('p')
  .on('click', function () {
    console.log('foo')
  })
  .on('click', function () {
    console.log('bar')
  })
  .firstOn('click', function () {
    console.log('quz')
  })
 
// After a click on `<p>` it will print:
//   quz
//   foo
//   bar

Use cases

Preventing stop propagation

It is not unusual to get, on a large code base, an event listener that is stopping propagation. With first-event you can run you event handler before the one that stops the event propagation.

$('p').on('click', function (event) {
  event.stopPropagation()
  console.log('foo')
})
 
$('p').on('click', function (event) {
  // Will never be executed since the event propagation was stopped
  // on the handler above.
  console.log('bar')
})
 
$('p').trigger('click')
// Will print:
//  foo
 
// Work-around with `first-event`
// ------------------------------
 
$('p').on('click', function (event) {
  event.stopPropagation()
  console.log('foo')
})
 
$('p').firstOn('click', function (event) {
  console.log('bar')
})
 
$('p').trigger('click')
// Will print:
//  bar
//  foo
 

Delay event

On Safari iOS, the browser needs some time to render CSS animations. So, if you want to show a CSS animation between pages, you need to give the browser that time to, only then, change the URL.

$('a').firstOn('click', function (event, data) {
  if (data && data.synthetic) {
    return true
  }
 
  event.preventDefault()
  event.stopPropagation()
 
  var url = $(this).attr('href')
 
  // Safe to show a loading spinner on Safari iOS
  spinner.show()
 
  setTimeout(function () {
    // Execute all previously attached event handlers
    $('a').triggerHandler('click', {synthetic: true})
 
    // Now change URL
    document.location.href = url
  })
})

Methods

• firstOn (available on jQuery >= 1.7)
• firstLive (available on jQuery < 1.9)
• firstBind
• firstDelegate
• firstOne

All methods implements the same jQuery counterparts API.

Support

All the below jQuery versions:

• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 2.0
• 2.1

Credits

• Icon created by 0gust1 from the Noun Project