Animate Vanilla JS

A tiny promise based animation function implemented in vanilla JavaScript.

• 👻 3kb (1kb gzipped)
• 📦 No dependencies
• 🌚 TypeScript support
• 🕺 Multiple built-in easings
• 🤝 Promise based
• ⚙ Uses requestAnimationFrame
• 🙅‍♂️ Cancelable

Demo

Installation

Module bundler (e.g. Webpack)

yarn add animate-vanilla-js

import animate from 'animate-vanilla-js'

Script tag

Download animate-vanilla-js-browser.js from the latest release here: https://github.com/phegman/animate-vanilla-js/releases

<script type="text/javascript" src="animate-vanilla-js-browser.js"></script>

The animation function will then be usable via the global function animateVanillaJs()

Usage

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Options
from	number	Starting animation value	N/A
to	number	Ending animation value	N/A
duration	number	Animation duration	N/A
easing	string || EasingFunction	Easing	linear, easeInQuad, easeOutQuad, easeInOutQuad, easeInCubic, easeOutCubic, easeInOutCubic, easeInQuart, easeOutQuart, easeInOutQuart, easeInQuint, easeOutQuint, easeInOutQuint
update	Function	Function with animation value passed as parameter	N/A

Basic Usage

import animate from 'animate-vanilla-js'

animate(
  0, // from
  100, // to
  500, // duration
  'easeInOutQuad', // easing
  value => {
    // update function
    console.log(value)
    // Perform DOM manipulation
  }
).then(() => {
  console.log('Done animating')
})

Canceling animations

import animate from 'animate-vanilla-js'

const promise = animate(
  0, // from
  100, // to
  500, // duration
  'easeInOutQuad', // easing
  value => {
    // update function
    console.log(value)
    // Perform DOM manipulation
  }
)

document.addEventListener('keydown', event => {
  event = event || window.event
  // Escape key is pressed
  if (event.keyCode === 27) {
    promise.cancel()
  }
})

promise.then(() => {
  console.log('Done animating')
})

Custom easing

import animate from 'animate-vanilla-js'

animate(
  0, // from
  100, // to
  500, // duration
  (t, b, c, d) => (c * t) / d + b, // easing function
  value => {
    // update function
    console.log(value)
    // Perform DOM manipulation
  }
).then(() => {
  console.log('Done animating')
})

Custom Easing Function

Parameter	Type	Description
t	number	Current time
b	number	Beginning value
c	number	Change in value
d	number	Duration

Examples

Animate to height: auto

const el = document.getElementById('el')
const toggleButton = document.getElementById('toggle-button')

toggleButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
  if (el.classList.contains('open')) {
    animate(el.scrollHeight, 0, 500, 'easeInOutQuad', value => {
      el.style.height = `${value}px`
    }).then(() => {
      el.style.cssText = ''
      el.classList.remove('open')
      el.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true')
      toggleButton.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false')
    })
  } else {
    animate(0, el.scrollHeight, 500, 'easeInOutQuad', value => {
      el.style.height = `${value}px`
    }).then(() => {
      el.style.cssText = ''
      el.classList.add('open')
      el.setAttribute('aria-hidden', 'false')
      toggleButton.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'true')
    })
  }
})

Smooth Scroll

function addEventListenerMulti(
  element: Element | NodeList,
  listeners: string,
  callback: (arg0: Event) => void
) {
  function addListeners(el: Element) {
    listeners
      .split(' ')
      .forEach(listener => el.addEventListener(listener, callback))
  }

  if (NodeList.prototype.isPrototypeOf(element)) {
    ;[...(<NodeList>element)].forEach(addListeners)
  } else {
    addListeners(<Element>element)
  }
}

function removeEventListenerMulti(
  element: Element | NodeList,
  listeners: string,
  callback: (arg0: Event) => void
) {
  function removeListeners(el: Element) {
    listeners
      .split(' ')
      .forEach(listener => el.removeEventListener(listener, callback))
  }

  if (NodeList.prototype.isPrototypeOf(element)) {
    ;[...(<NodeList>element)].forEach(removeListeners)
  } else {
    removeListeners(<Element>element)
  }
}

const button = document.querySelector('.scroll-button')
const scrollAnchor = document.getElementById('scroll-anchor')

button.addEventListener('click', () => {
  const currentScrollPosition =
    (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.scrollTop) ||
    document.body.scrollTop
  const scrollAnchorTop =
    scrollAnchor.getBoundingClientRect().top + currentScrollPosition

  const promise = animate(
    currentScrollPosition,
    scrollAnchorTop,
    500,
    'easeInQuad',
    value => {
      window.scrollTo(0, value)
    }
  )

  promise.then(() => {
    // Try to focus on element
    scrollAnchor.focus()

    // If that element was not able to be focused, set tabindex and then refocus
    if (document.activeElement !== scrollAnchor) {
      scrollAnchor.tabIndex = -1
      scrollAnchor.focus()
      // We can hide the outline here because normally this element wouldn't be focusable.
      // We made it focusable so the tab order could be set correctly
      scrollAnchor.style.outline = 'none'
    }

    cancelScroll()
  })

  addEventListenerMulti(
    document.querySelectorAll('html, body'),
    'scroll mousedown wheel DOMMouseScroll mousewheel touchmove',
    cancelScroll
  )

  function cancelScroll() {
    promise.cancel()
    removeEventListenerMulti(
      document.querySelectorAll('html, body'),
      'scroll mousedown wheel DOMMouseScroll mousewheel touchmove',
      cancelScroll
    )
  }
})

Browser Support

IE / Edge	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	iOS Safari
IE11, > Edge 12	> 23	> 24	> 6.1	> 7.1

Development

Start development server with hot module reloading

yarn serve

Build project for production

yarn build