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slimfit

Slim library for fitting and resizing boxes.

Definition

For slimfit, a box is anything that has dimension:

1. DOM Element
2. Array [width, height]
3. Any Object with fields width and height.
4. Function that returns any of the above.

Features

1. Fit one box into another box with Fitter

const fitter = new Fitter(fitOptions)

import { Fitter } from 'slimfit';

// For basic fitting
const fitter = new Fitter({
  mode: 'basic', // if mode is not specified, use 'basic' by default
  width: '100%', // (optional) 100% of container
  height: 100    // (optional) 100 pixels
});

// To maintain aspect ratio of the content
const fitter2 = new Fitter({
  mode: 'aspectRatio',
  ratio: 16/9,
  maxWidth: 1600, // (optional)
  maxHeight: 900  // (optional)
});

The fields width, height, maxWidth and maxHeight in fitOptions can be:

• '10%' => 10% of container
• 10 => 10 pixels
• '10px' => 10 pixels
• '10' => 10 pixels
• null => (default) will make sure content is not larger than container

const result = fitter.fit(content, container)

Then you can compute how to fit content box into a container box. This fit() function returns an Object with two fields: changed and dimension. Note that this function DOES NOT RESIZE content for you. It only tells you if you need to resize and if so, what new size should the content be.

• **result.changed:**Boolean is true if content need to be resized to the returned dimension in order to fit container. It is false if content is already fit. In the latter case, content's dimension is equal to the returned dimension.
• **result.dimension:**Dimension is a Dimension object, which has field width and height. This is the dimension that will make the content fit container based on the given options when constructing the Fitter.

// 1) Box can be DOM element
const result = fitter.fit(
  document.querySelector('.content'),
  document.querySelector('.container')
);
// result = { changed: true/false, dimension }

// 2) Box can be any Object with field width and height
const result = fitter.fit(
  { width: 100, height: 200},
  { width: 400, height: 400}
);
// result = { changed: true/false, dimension }

// 3) Box can be a dimension array: [width, height]
const result = fitter.fit(
  [100,200],
  [400,400]
);
// result = { changed: true/false, dimension }

// 4) Also support getter function that returns any of the above
const result = fitter.fit(
  () => [100,200],
  () => [400,400]
);
// result = { changed: true/false, dimension }

2. Watch for box size change and gets notification with Watcher.

One repetitive task for making responsive component is to watch for size changes.

const watcher = new Watcher(watchOptions)

import { Watcher } from 'slimfit';

const watcher = new Watcher({
  mode: 'window',
  target: null,
  interval: 500
})
.on('change', dimension => {
  // do something
})
.start();

watchOptions

• **mode:**String -- A watcher can operates in two modes: 'window' and 'polling'. For window mode, it will check every time the window is resized. For polling mode, it will create a timer and check every interval. The latter is useful if the target can be resized without the entire window being resized.
• **target:**Box -- Target box to check size. The watcher will dispatch event 'change' if the size of the target has changed from last time. If not specified, will check window size.
• **interval:**Number -- time in ms. For window mode, it will ensure that the Watcher does not fire more often than once every interval ms (i.e. throttled). For polling, this value will be used as an interval for the timer to check.

watcher.on(name, listener)

Add event listener

watcher.off(name, listener)

Remove event listener

watcher.start()

Start the watcher

watcher.stop()

Stop the watcher

3. Watch for box size change and only notifies if need to resize again to fit.

Now if you want to fit one box into another box and also make sure to do again that if anything was resized, FitWatcher is your solution. Again, note that it does not resize the box for you. It only notifies that you need to resize and what the new dimension should be.

new FitWatcher(content, container, fitOptions, watchOptions)

The arguments fitOptions uses the same specification explained in Fitter while watchOptions uses the specification from Watcher.

import { FitWatcher } from 'slimfit';

const fitWatcher = new FitWatcher(
  document.querySelector('.content'),
  document.querySelector('.container'),
  fitOptions,
  watchOptions
)
.on('change', dimension => {
  // do something
})
.start();

fitWatcher.on(name, listener)

Add event listener

fitWatcher.off(name, listener)

Remove event listener

fitWatcher.start()

Start the watcher

fitWatcher.stop()

Stop the watcher

Install

npm install slimfit --save

or

bower install slimfit --save

Import into your project

Choice 1. Global

Adding this library via <script> tag is the simplest way. By doing this, slimfit is available in the global scope.

<script src="bower_components/slimfit/dist/slimfit.min.js"></script>

Choice 2: ES6 Import

import { Fitter, Watcher, FitWatcher } from 'slimfit';

Choice 3: AMD

If you use requirejs, this library support AMD out of the box.

require.config({
  paths: {
    'slimfit': 'path/to/slimfit'
  }
});
require(['slimfit'], function(slimfit) {
  // do something with slimfit
});

Choice 4: node.js / browserify

This library also supports usage in commonjs style.

var slimfit = require('slimfit');
// do something with slimfit

License

© 2016 Krist Wongsuphasawat (@kristw) Apache-2.0 License