subscribe-ui-event

subscribe-ui-event provides an cross-browser and performant way to subscribe to browser UI Events.

Instead of calling window.addEvenListener('scroll', eventHandler);, you can call subscribe('scroll', eventHandler) and you can get lots of benifits:

1. Do throttling by default.
2. Provide requestAnimationFrame throttle for the need of high performance.
3. Attach to UI event only once for multiple subscriptions, and broadcast via eventemitter3,
4. (In the near future) Provide single access to UI variables (such like scrollTop) to avoid multiple reflows.

Install

ynpm install subscribe-ui-event

API

subscribe

Subscription subscribe(String eventType, Function callback, Object? options)

Provide throttled version of window or document events, such like scroll, resize and visibilitychange to subscribe. It also provides some higher, compound events, such like viewportchange, which combines scroll, resize and visibilitychange events.

Note on IE8 or the below, the throttle will be turned off because the event object is global and will be deleted for setTimeout or rAF.

Example:

var subscribe = require('subscribe-ui-event').subscribe;
function eventHandler (e, payload) {
    // e is the native event object and
    // payload is the additional information
    ...
}
// 50ms throttle by default
var subscription = subscribe('scroll', eventHandler);
// remove later
subscription.unsubscribe();

options.throttleRate allows of changing the throttle rate, and the default value is 50 (ms). Set 0 for no throttle. On IE8, there will be no throttle, because throttling will use setTimeout or rAF to achieve, and the event object passed into event handler will be overwritten.

options.context allows of setting the caller of callback function.

options.useRAF = true allows of using requestAnimationFrame instead of setTimeout. If true, the default value of throttle rate will be 15 (ms).

eventType could be one of the following:

1. scroll - window.scoll
2. scrollStart - The start window.scoll
3. scrollEnd - The end window.scoll
4. resize - window.resize
5. resizeStart - The start window.resize
6. resizeEnd - The end window.resize
7. visibilitychange - document.visibilitychange
8. viewportchange - scroll + resize + visibilitychange

unsubscribe

Void unsubscribe(String eventType, Function callback)

Unsubscribe an event. Note that all subscriptions with the same eventHandler and the same event type will be unsubscribed together even if they have different options.

License

This software is free to use under the BSD license. See the LICENSE file for license text and copyright information.