ScrollBooster

Enjoyable drag-to-scroll micro library (~2KB gzipped). Supports smooth content scroll via mouse/touch dragging, trackpad or mouse wheel. Zero dependencies.

Easy to setup yet flexible enough to support any custom scrolling logic.

Installation

You can install it via npm or yarn package manager or via script tag:

npm i scrollbooster

yarn add scrollbooster

<script src="https://unpkg.com/scrollbooster@2/dist/scrollbooster.min.js"></script>

Usage

The most simple setup with default settings:

import ScrollBooster from 'scrollbooster';
 
new ScrollBooster({
    viewport: document.querySelector('.viewport'),
    scrollMode: 'transform'
});

Please note that in order to support IE11 you should replace arrow functions and string templates from code examples to supported equivalents or just use Babel.

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
viewport	DOM Node	null	Content viewport element (required)
content	DOM Node	viewport child element	Scrollable content element inside viewport
scrollMode	String	undefined	Scroll technique - via CSS transform or natively. Could be 'transform' or 'native'
direction	String	'all'	Scroll direction. Could be 'horizontal', 'vertical' or 'all'
bounce	Boolean	true	Enables elastic bounce effect when hitting viewport borders
textSelection	Boolean	false	Enables text selection inside viewport
inputsFocus	Boolean	true	Enables focus for elements: 'input', 'textarea', 'button', 'select' and 'label'
pointerMode	String	'all'	Specify pointer type. Supported values - 'touch' (scroll only on touch devices), 'mouse' (scroll only on desktop), 'all' (mobile and desktop)
friction	Number	0.05	Scroll friction factor - how fast scrolling stops after pointer release
bounceForce	Number	0.1	Elastic bounce effect factor
emulateScroll	Boolean	false	Enables mouse wheel/trackpad emulation inside viewport
preventDefaultOnEmulateScroll	String	false	Prevents horizontal or vertical default when emulateScroll is enabled (eg. useful to prevent horizontal trackpad gestures while enabling vertical scrolling). Could be 'horizontal' or 'vertical'.
lockScrollOnDragDirection	String	false	Detect drag direction and either prevent default mousedown/touchstart event or lock content scroll. Could be 'horizontal', 'vertical' or 'all'
dragDirectionTolerance	Number	40	Tolerance for horizontal or vertical drag detection
onUpdate	Function	noop	Handler function to perform actual scrolling. Receives scrolling state object with coordinates
onClick	Function	noop	Click handler function. Here you can, for example, prevent default event for click on links. Receives object with scrolling metrics and event object. Calls after each click in scrollable area
onPointerDown	Function	noop	mousedown/touchstart events handler
onPointerUp	Function	noop	mouseup/touchend events handler
onPointerMove	Function	noop	mousemove/touchmove events handler
onWheel	Function	noop	wheel event handler
shouldScroll	Function	noop	Function to permit or disable scrolling. Receives object with scrolling state and event object. Calls on pointerdown (mousedown, touchstart) in scrollable area. You can return true or false to enable or disable scrolling

List of methods

Method	Description
setPosition	Sets new scroll position in viewport. Receives an object with properties x and y
scrollTo	Smooth scroll to position in viewport. Receives an object with properties x and y
updateMetrics	Forces to recalculate elements metrics. Useful for cases when content in scrollable area change its size dynamically
updateOptions	Sets option value. All properties from Options config object are supported
getState	Returns current scroll state in a same format as onUpdate
destroy	Removes all instance's event listeners

Full Example

const viewport = document.querySelector('.viewport');
const content = document.querySelector('.scrollable-content');
 
const sb = new ScrollBooster({
  viewport,
  content,
  bounce: true,
  textSelection: false,
  emulateScroll: true,
  onUpdate: (state) => {
    // state contains useful metrics: position, dragOffset, dragAngle, isDragging, isMoving, borderCollision
    // you can control scroll rendering manually without 'scrollMethod' option:
    content.style.transform = `translate(
      ${-state.position.x}px,
      ${-state.position.y}px
    )`;
  },
  shouldScroll: (state, event) => {
    // disable scroll if clicked on button
    const isButton = event.target.nodeName.toLowerCase() === 'button';
    return !isButton;
  },
  onClick: (state, event, isTouchDevice) => {
    // prevent default link event
    const isLink = event.target.nodeName.toLowerCase() === 'link';
    if (isLink) {
      event.preventDefault();
    }
  }
});
 
// methods usage examples:
sb.updateMetrics();
sb.scrollTo({ x: 100, y: 100 });
sb.updateOptions({ emulateScroll: false });
sb.destroy();

Live ScrollBooster Examples On CodeSandbox

Browser support

ScrollBooster has been tested in IE 11, Edge and other modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari).

Special thanks

David DeSandro for his talk "Practical UI Physics".

License

MIT License (c) Ilya Shubin