Progressio

Progressio transforms your static website to a dynamic environment. Pages are loaded asynchronously, with the use of the browser history JavaScript API and a beautiful overlay progress bar.

This library was originally built for Waaave - you can test it live there.

Progressio is published under the terms of the Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL v2.0) license - see the LICENSE.md file.

Testing Progressio

You can test Progressio by opening page: ./examples/simple_1.html.

Note: You first need to build Progressio, please refer to the Installation Notes section of this document.

Installation Notes

Dependencies

Progressio depends on the following libraries:

• jQuery
• jQuery UI Effects
• jQuery Timers
• jQuery hasParent
• LazyLoad
• Console.js

Build

Progressio can be built using the GruntJS build system.

Execute one of the following commands to build the library:

• grunt build

Once done, you can retrieve the progressio.js and progressio.css files in the build/ folder.

Usage

Using Progressio is straightforward. Here's how to use it.

1. Include library files

Load Progressio source files and its dependencies in the head of your website pages. Please add it globally to your website (in your base template - provided you're using a template system).

<!-- BEGIN Dependencies -->
<script src="./build/javascripts/libs.min.js" type="text/javascript" data-progressio-scope="common"></script>
<!-- END Dependencies -->
 
<!-- BEGIN Progressio -->
<script src="./build/javascripts/progressio.min.js" type="text/javascript" data-progressio-scope="common"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./build/javascripts/progressio.min.css" type="text/css" data-progressio-scope="common">
<!-- END Progressio -->

2. Initiliaze library configuration

Progressio needs to be initialized in order to apply its change.

Once the library is loaded (on document ready, typically), execute the following snippet:

(new Progressio({
  /* {blue|red|green|yellow|orange|black|purple|(custom)} */
  /* Default: 'blue' */
  color: 'blue',
 
  /* [optional] Fix position of the loading bar (always visible on top, even when scrolling down) */
  /* Default: false */
  fixed: false,
 
  /* [optional] Loading bar location {top|bottom} - requires 'fixed' set to true */
  /* Default: 'top' */
  location: 'top',
 
  /* [optional] Site-wide page container */
  /* Default: '#body' */
  container: '#body',
 
  /* [optional] Where to insert the load bar? */
  /* Default: 'body' */
  load_bar: 'body',
 
  /* [optional] Auto-hide bar when page load is done? */
  /* Default: false */
  auto_hide: false,
 
  /* [optional] Event callbacks */
  callbacks: {
    post_display: {
      before: function() {},
      after: function() {}
    },
 
    on_complete: {
      before: function() {},
      after: function() {}
    }
  },
 
  /* [optional] Console wrapper (native console or Console.js) */
  console: Console,
})).apply();

Note: Progressio is configurable, refer to the comments above each line for available values.

3. Tag links to be excluded

By default, Progressio patches all local links (links with the same domain and protocol as the current page being browsed + relative and absolute links without the host part).

If, for any reason, you want a link not to be patched, add the data-progressio-async="disabled" tag to the link element, as below:

<a href="/path/to/other/page/" data-progressio-async="disabled">Path To Other Page</a>

Note: links with target="_blank" are not patched, in any case.

4. Tag common dependencies (stylesheets + scripts)

Progressio processes an automated diff of the page head dependencies while browsing.

It automatically includes and load new CSS stylesheets and JS scripts. If your website has site-wide/common dependencies, you may want to add a tag to let Progressio know it shouldn't replace it.

Set its Progressio scope to "common" by adding the data-progressio-scope="common" tag to the script/link element, as below:

<!-- This script WON'T BE replaced -->
<script src="/not/to/replace.js" type="text/javascript" data-progressio-scope="common"></script>
 
<!-- This stylesheet WON'T BE replaced -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/not/to/replace.css" type="text/css" data-progressio-scope="common">
 
<!-- This stylesheet WILL BE replaced -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/can/be/replaced.css" type="text/css">