finesse-dnd v0.2.0-rc.2

Finesse-Dnd

This is a work in progress. The primary reason this library exists is to power a drag-n-drop visual programming UI (inspired by Google Blockly and Scratch). I will continue to polish this library up as I work on that project, and hope to release a battle-tested v1.0 later this year.

Design goals

• Decouple drag operations from the DOM, as many modern JavaScript frameworks assume that the DOM never holds any state. Integration with libraries such as Mithril and React should be seamless.
• Provide very fine-grained control with as friendly an API as possible
• Avoid HTML5 Drag n Drop, as it has some severe limitations.

Notes

Optimized APIs for common drag-n-drop interactions such as list items than can be reordered, etc are not provided out of the box. They can be implemented without too much difficulty. If you are building a more specialized drag-n-drop UI, this libray may work welll for you. Keep in mind that is a work in progress, and needs some polishing and performance optimizing.

See the demo app for a basic example. I will add API documentation as the project stabilizes.

git clone https://github.com/dwaltrip/finesse-dnd.git
cd finesse-dnd
npm install
npm run build:demo
open demo/index.html