Swipes - library that helps to handle swipes on mobile devices

This library helps to handle swipe events on mobile devices with Vanilla JS or any JS/TS framework. It has a lightweight API with config.

Example

Basic example:

import { registerSwipeHandlers } from '@oleksii-pavlov/swipes'

registerSwipeHandlers('#element', {
  onSwipe: (event) => console.log(event.distance)
})

Here we added event listener for the swipe event on the #element. Read more about registerSwipeHandlers.

We can specify the swipe direction that we want to listen to. For this, we need to add a new callback to config:

import { registerSwipeHandlers } from '@oleksii-pavlov/swipes'

registerSwipeHandlers('#element', {
  onSwipe: (event) => console.log(event.distance),
  onSwipeRight: () => console.log('Swiped right!')
})

See SwipeEvent docs in API Reference.

Also, we can add a listener on swiping event - it fires during the swipe and works like "touchmove" event:

import { registerSwipeHandlers } from '@oleksii-pavlov/swipes'

registerSwipeHandlers('#element', {
  onSwipe: (event) => console.log(event.distance),
  onSwipeRight: () => console.log('Swiped right!'),
  onSwipingRight: () => console.log('Swiping...')
})

About other utilities, read in API Reference

API Reference

Functions:

registerSwipeHandlers(selector: string, config: SwipeHandlersConfig)

Creates event listeners to the elements queried by selector and starts swipes handling.

applySwipeHandlers(selector: string, handlers: SwipeEventHandlers)

Adds given event listeners handlers and applies it to the elements queried by selector. In most cases, you need to use registerSwipeHandlers.

createSwipeHandlers(config, SwipeHandlersConfig)

Creates SwipeEventHandlers that can be applied later. Use this function in non-vanilla js projects. Add created event listeners to the target element and swipes will be handled. These event listeners use standard Browser API so they can be used with frameworks.

addSwipeHandlers(element: HTMLElement, config: SwipeHandlersConfig)

Adds swipe event handlers to the HTML element. Works very similar to registerSwipeHandlers but takes an element as argument instead of selector.

Types:

SwipeHandlersConfig:

interface SwipeHandlersConfig {
  minSwipeDistance?: number // minimal distance needed to trigger swipe event
  minSwipingDistance?: number // minimal distance needed to trigger swiping event

  onSwipe?: SwipeHandlerCallback // will be called on each swipe event (any direction)
  onSwiping?: SwipeHandlerCallback // will be called on each swiping event (any direction)

  // swipe callbacks by directions 
  onSwipeTop?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipeRight?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipeBottom?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipeLeft?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  
  onSwipeTopRight?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipeBottomRight?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipeBottomLeft?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipeTopLeft?: SwipeHandlerCallback

  // swiping callbacks by directions
  onSwipingTop?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipingRight?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipingBottom?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipingLeft?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  
  onSwipingTopRight?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipingBottomRight?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipingBottomLeft?: SwipeHandlerCallback
  onSwipingTopLeft?: SwipeHandlerCallback
}

SwipeHandlerCallback

type SwipeHandlerCallback = (event: SwipeEvent) => void

SwipeEventHandlers

interface SwipeEventHandlers {
  touchStartHandler: (e: TouchEvent) => void // event listener for touchstart event
  touchMoveHandler: (e: TouchEvent) => void // event listener for touchmove event
  touchEndHandler: (e: TouchEvent) => void // event listener for touchend event
}

These handlers are applied by registerSwipeHandlers and applySwipeHandlers functions. If you use createSwipeHandlers, you need to add these listeners by yourself!

Swipe Event

interface SwipeEvent {
  // angle of the swipe in degrees:
  // top - 0 degrees
  // right - 90 degrees
  // bottom - 180 degrees
  // left - 270 degrees
  angle: number

  // event target
  target: Nullable<EventTarget>
  
  // swiped distance (between swipe start and swipe end positions)
  distance: number

  // swipe move
  dx: number
  dy: number
}