quinto

Tiny utility library to capture imprecise user interactions in the DOM

Quinto captures imprecise user interactions in the DOM by adding an event listener to the document body for click and mouseover event types. When an event is captured, the library walks the DOM until it finds the first nearest ancestor assigned as a landmark.

The purpose is to reduce the boilerplate in assigning event handlers to individual elements.

Install

yarn add quinto

Usage

The library is currently implemented in React and vanilla JavaScript.

React

The default import is the React implementation.

import * as React from 'react';
import Quinto from 'quinto';
 
class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <Quinto onClick={this.handleClick} />
        <div data-q={JSON.stringify({ id: 'text' })}>
          <div>
            <div>
              <div>Text</div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    );
  }
 
  handleClick = data => {
    // clicking on <div>Text</div>
    console.log(data);
    /**
     * {
     *  data: {
     *    id: 'text'
     *  },
     *  depth: 3,
     *  element: <div>Text</div>
     * }
     * */
  };
}

Vanilla

For the vanilla implementation, import the library as such:

import { Quinto } from 'quinto';
 
const quinto = new Quinto({
  onClick: data => {
    console.log(data);
  }
});

Documentation

Read the full API documentation.

Example

To run the examples, follow the steps listed in the subfolder README.

License

Apache 2.0