Dragify

What is it?

Dragify will turn elements in the DOM into dragable elements. It triggers hardware acceleration by using the css3 transform and will-change. This should help to optimize performance when dragging elements with a lot of content on large pages.

Features

• Easy to set up
• Uses hardware acceleration
• The possibility to provide a threshold
• The 'to-be-dragged' element provide a clean visual feedback while dragging and dropping

Install

npm install dragify --save

Usage

// Only containers
var dragify = new Dragify(containers);

// Only options
var dragify = new Dragify(options);

// Both containers and options
var dragify = new Dragify(containers,options);

Containers

containers is an array of the parents of the DOM elements you wish to Dragify.

<div class="parent-one">
	<div class="child"></div>
	<div class="child"></div>
	<div class="child"></div>
	<div class="child"></div>
</div>

<div class="parent-two">
	<div class="child"></div>
	<div class="child"></div>
	<div class="child"></div>
	<div class="child"></div>
</div>

containers = [
	document.getElementsByClassName("parent-one")[0],
	document.getElementsByClassName("parent-two")[0]
]

var dragify = new Dragify(containers);

Options

Options.threshold

The threshold option was created to make sure a click on a element does not turn into a drag because the user cannot keep the mouse steady during the click. Lots of users want to click on an element but instead drag it, even though it is just a little distance. This threshold option allows you to determine how much a user is allowed to move before the actual drag starts. As long as the drag does not start all events the element is listening for will still be triggered as if the drag attempt has not happened yet. By default a threshold of 3px is applied in both directions.

options = {
	threshold: {
		x: 20,
		y: 20
	}
}

var dragify = new Dragify(options);

The user can now mousedown on an element and move the mouse 20px left right up and down from its original starting point before the actual drag will start.

Options.transition

While dragging an element that element will be in transition. Its opacity will drop to 0.3. When the element is dropped the element's opacity will become 1.0 again. By default this change in opacity will have a transition. However on drop the className dragify--transition (which enables this transition) will still be shown on the element due to the time it takes for the transition to finish. If you do not want this class to be added you can disable the transition class by setting this value to false. By default the transition is set to true.

options = {
	transition: false
}

var dragify = new Dragify(options);

Now the transitions class will not be added. Ofcourse you can still add the transition properties to the element directly.

Options.isContainer

When you initialize Dragify you provide containers which contain children to be dragged. However if you have dynamic children and or containers the new elements will not be Dragified. If you provide the isContainer options you can define a function which determines if an element is a valid Dragify parent. The first argument el in isContainer can be used to check the DOM elements up the tree from the click target. The second argument ev can be used to investigate the mousedown event on the target.

options = {
	isContainer: function (el, ev) {
		return el.classList.contains('dragify--container') && ev.ctrlKey;
	}
}

var dragify = new Dragify(options);

Now any element at any point in time will be a valid Dragify container if it contains the class dragify--container and crtl is pressed while attempting to drag

Options.excludes

Excludes are DOM elements dragify will ignore. By default excludes contains [INPUT, TEXTAREA, LABEL].

options = {
	excludes: ["DIV"]
}

var dragify = new Dragify(options);

Now all DIV's will be ignored by Dragify while attempting to drag

Events

You can listen to the following events

var dragify = new Dragify(containers,options);

dragify.on('drag', function(){console.log('drag');});
dragify.on('move', function(){console.log('move');});
dragify.on('drop', function(){console.log('drop');});
dragify.on('cancel', function(){console.log('cancel');});
dragify.on('end', function(){console.log('end');});

Event Name	Listener Arguments	Event Description
drag	el, source	el was lifted from source
move	el, parent, source, replaced	el changed position and now has parent parent and originally came from source. If defined replaced was replaced by el.
drop	el, parent, source	el was dropped into parent, and originally came from source
cancel	el, source	el was dragged but ended up at it's original position in the original source
end	el	Dragging event for el ended with either cancel or drop

Inspiration

I have used Dragula and liked its simplicity but I wanted hardware acceleration and a threshold. The lack of these functionalities in dragula causes some discomfort for my own use cases. If required I will try to add more of the functionality that Dragula provides, however I do not focus on supporting < IE11. PR's for supporting < IE11 however I will take into consideration.