DataScroll

Easily create responsive parallax effect and scroll animations on any element using data attributes.

• 👀 The element only animates while inside the viewport.
• 🎯 The element will have its normal position when in the middle of the viewport.
• 🎨 Animate any property from/to any value.
• 🌈 Apply breakpoint-specific speeds.
• ⚙️ Customize the data-attribute names (hell, even use classes if you want!).
• 🩻 Add helpful markers during development/troubleshooting
• 🚀 Leverages GSAP and ScrollTrigger under the hood.

Usage

Install package:

# npm
npm install data-scroll

# yarn
yarn add data-scroll

# pnpm
pnpm install data-scroll

# bun
bun install data-scroll

Import and instantiate:

import { useDataScroll } from "data-scroll";

useDataScroll();

Play around!

<div data-scroll-speed="md:0.5 lg:0.2">Oowee!</div>

Data attributes

By default, the following data attributes are used:

data-scroll-speed

The speed factor at which the element will move.

• 1 is the default
• 0 is ignored
• 0.5 will make that element go at half-speed
• 2 will make it go twice as fast.

<div data-scroll-speed="0.5">Oowee!</div>

Responsive speed

You can specify the speed depending on a breakpoint.

<div data-scroll-speed="md:0.5 lg:0.2">Oowee!</div>

In this example, the speed will be 0.5 starting at medium screens and 0.2 starting at large screens.

Clamp

Your element is above the fold and you want it to start from its normal position? Use clamp!

<div data-scroll-speed="md:clamp(0.5)">Oowee!</div>

If the element is below the fold, clamp will be ignored.

data-scroll-from

The style from which the element will animate from. See it as a gsap.from()

Beware that the value has to be valid JSON. For functions, use the getFrom option.

<div data-scroll-from='{"backgroundColor": "black"}'>Oowee!</div>

In this example, the element will animate from a black background color to its original background color.

data-scroll-to

The style to which the element will animate to. See it as a gsap.to()

Beware that the value has to be valid JSON. For functions, use the getTo option.

<div data-scroll-from='{"rotate": 360}'>Oowee!</div>

In this example, the element will rotate to 360 degrees.

data-scroll-markers

Add helpful markers for development/troubleshooting. It's ScrollTrigger's markers option.

<div data-scroll-speed="0.5" data-scroll-markers>Oowee!</div>

Options

autoStart

If true, will automatically find and instantiate elements. If false, you will have to instantiate manually.

• type: boolean
• default: true

const dataScroll = useDataScroll({
  autoStart: false,
});

const targets = document.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>('[data-scroll-speed]')
for (const target of targets) {
  dataScroll.apply(target)
}

screens

The breakpoints used for the data-scroll-speed attribute. The defaults are the same as TailwindCSS but you can customize them.

Only min-width breakpoints are supported.

• type: Record<string, string>
• default:

{
  sm: '640px',
  md: '768px',
  lg: '1024px',
  xl: '1280px',
  "2xl": '1536px'
}

Feel free to have as few or as many screens as you want, naming them in whatever way you’d prefer for your project.

useDataScroll({
  screens: {
    'tablet': '640px',
    'laptop': '1024px',
    'desktop': '1280px',
  },
});

<div data-scroll-speed="tablet:0.5 laptop:0.2 desktop:0.1">Oowee!</div>

selector

The selector used to find elements to instantiate.

• type: string
• default: [data-scroll-speed],[data-scroll-from],[data-scroll-to]

useDataScroll({
  selector: '.foo',
});

getSpeed

A function that returns the speed of an element.

• type: (target: HTMLElement) => string | void
• default: (target) => target.dataset.scrollSpeed

If you don't want or just can't use the default data-attributes, you can plug your custom logic.

Let's say you want to use classes instead of data-attributes:

// Extract from a string the contents inside brackets
function extractValue(value: string) {
  const matches = value.match(/\[(.*?)\]/);
  if (matches) {
    return matches[1].replaceAll("_", " ");
  }
  return "";
}

useDataScroll({
  selector: '[class^="scroll-speed"]',
  getSpeed: (target) => {
    // Find the class that starts with "scroll-speed"
    const value = Array.from(target.classList).find((className) => {
      return className.startsWith("scroll-speed"),
    });
    // Extract the value inside the brackets
    if (value) return extractValue(value);
  },
})

<div class="scroll-speed-[0.5]">Oowee!</div>
<div class="scroll-speed-[0.05_md:0.02]">Oooooowwweeeee!</div>

getFrom

A function that returns the style to animate the element from.

• type: (target: HTMLElement) => gsap.TweenVars | void
• default:

(target: HTMLElement) => {
  const data = target.dataset.scrollFrom;
  if (data) return JSON.parse(data);
}

You could use predefined animations

useDataScroll({
  getFrom: (target) => {
    if (target.classList.contains("rotate-360")) {
      return { rotate: 360 };
    }
  }
})

<div data-scroll class="rotate-360"></div>

getTo

A function that returns the style to animate the element to. See getFrom.

Roadmap

• [x] documentation
• [ ] tests
• [ ] playground
• [ ] Add data-scroll-progress
• [ ] Add hooks for ScrollTrigger like toggleClass, onEnter, onLeave, etc.

Development

• Clone this repository
• Install latest LTS version of Node.js
• Enable Corepack using corepack enable
• Install dependencies using pnpm install
• Run interactive tests using pnpm dev

License

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Published under MIT License.