cachu-slider

A standalone vanilla javascript library to create animated fullscreen or content-fit sliders on your web pages. It is inspired by the famous library fullpage.js by Alvaro Trigo.

The particularity of cachu-slider is that it's essentially based on Promises (ES6 feature), what is ideal for adding individual animations/transitions to each element of each slider section.

Notice: If you don't plan to use animations or transitions on some of the elements of some of your slides, you must ask yourself if you really need to use this library. ( You could consider using fullpage.js rather ).

Have any suggestions or feedback? Reach out @mystroken

Usage

1. Including the library

Install via npm : npm install cachu-slider
Or include dist files directly into your HTML document.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="cachu-slider.min.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="cachu-slider.min.js"></script>

If you plan to use the library into a webpack project, you must read our advanced guide for including necessary files.

2. Required HTML Structure

<div class="cachu__container">
  <!-- All sections are wrapped inside .cachu__sections  -->
  <div class="cachu__sections">
    <section class="cachu__section">Some section</section>
    <section class="cachu__section">Some section</section>
    <section class="cachu__section">Some section</section>
  </div>
  <!-- End of section  -->
  <!-- Navigation fill be dynamically added here (via JavaScript) -->
</div>

Each section will be defined with an element containing the cachu__section class. The active section by default will be the first section.

Slider elements should be placed inside a wrapper. The wrapper can not be the body element and it must have the cachu__container class.

This structure will generate, by default, a fullpage slider. If you want a content-fit slider rather, you should add to the wrapper cachu__container--content-fit class too.

<div class="cachu__container cachu__container--content-fit">

3. Instantiate the slider

Before initializing the slider, make sure that the DOM Content is already loaded.

//
// Now let's turn on our slider!
//
// 1. Set some options.
// 2. Instantiate the Slider with the DOM Element instance of the wrapper.
// 3. Run the slider !!
const options = {};
let slider = new Cachu(document.querySelector('.cachu__container'), options);
slider.run();

A more complete initialization with all options set could look like this:

// Complete options.
const options = {
  disableMouseEvents: false, // Disable mousewheel event listening.
  scrollingSpeed: 1000,  // The speed of the transition.
  scrollingLoop: true,  // Loop after reaching the end.
  navigationEnabled: true, // Enable navigation buttons
  navigationPosition: 'right'  // The Navigation's position
};
 
let slider = new Cachu(document.querySelector('.cachu__container'), options);
slider.run();

Options

• disableMouseEvents: boolean (default false) Disable listening mousewheel events. This feature may be interesting if you only want to scroll through navigation buttons.
• scrollingSpeed: int (default 1000) Sets the speed of the transition between sections. This value must be greather than or equal to zero (>= 0).

• scrollingLoop: boolean (default true) Tells the slider if it has to loop the scrolling after reaching the end of sections.
• navigationEnabled: boolean (default true) Tells the slider to display or not the navigation buttons.
• navigationPosition: string (default right) Sets the position of the navigation (if enabled). Possible values are:
  • top: Fix navigation to the top.
  • right: Fix navigation to the right.
  • bottom: Fix navigation to the bottom.
  • left: Fix navigation to the left.

Methods

After instantiating the slider (var slider = new Cachu(...)), you get access to all these methods:

run()

You must call this method to run the slide. Else, the content will be hidden.

Reporting issues

If you find a bug or have compatibility issues, please open a ticket under issues section for this repository.

Contributing to cachu-slider

Please see Contributing to cachu slider.

License

cachu-slider is an open sourced project using MIT license.

The credit comments in the JavaScript and CSS files should be kept intact (even after combination or minification).

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2018 Mystro Ken [e-mail]

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