baptistebriel/biggie

❗ ❗ ❗ This project is no longer maintained. I would not suggest starting a new project with it.

biggie is a JavaScript application boilerplate written in ES6 based on bigwheel, a minimalist framework from Jam3.

❗ Be sure to check out the full documentation for bigwheel before you're getting started.

Getting Started

# clone repo to local
git clone https://github.com/baptistebriel/biggie.git

# move into directory
cd biggie

# install dependencies
npm i

# start gulp
gulp

Your site will be at http://localhost:3000 by default using browser-sync

Examples

Documentation

Loading your data

/assets/js/utils/biggie/page.js

page(req, view, options, done)

This function is called on init, for all sections that extends default.js

1. retrieve the slug of the current route, from the req parameter
1. get the HTML content using AJAX, or from biggie's cache if this route already has been resolved
1. create an HTML element and append it to the view

Default Setup

With the default setup, it's loading static .html files under the /templates folder as such:
i.e. with a route as http://localhost:3000/home, it will load /templates/home.html

/assets/js/utils/biggie/page.js

ajax.get(`${config.BASE}templates/${id}.html`, {
  success: (object) => {
    const html = object.data
    page.innerHTML = html
    if(options.cache) cache[id] = html
    done()
  }
})

biggie in a sub-folder

If you want to use biggie in a subfolder of your website instead of root, edit config.BASE in assets/js/config.js so it will set the routes and get the templates using this prefix.

Default for config.BASE is /, but if your website is under website.com/biggie for example, set it to /biggie/

WordPress

If you're using WordPress for example, the page function would look like this:

/assets/js/utils/biggie/page.js

const id = slug(req, options)
const cn = id.replace('/', '-')
const page = create({ selector: 'div', id: `page-${cn}`, styles: `page page-${cn}` })

view.appendChild(page)

if(!cache[slug] || !options.cache) {
  
  ajax.get(`${config.BASE}${slug}`, {
    success: (object) => {
      const html = object.data.split(/(<main>|<\/main>)/ig)[2]
      page.innerHTML = html
      if(options.cache) cache[slug] = html
      done()
    }
  })
          
} else {
    	
  setTimeout(() => {
    page.innerHTML = cache[slug]
    done()
  }, 1)
}

return page

❗ Be sure that your permalinks are set to use the custom structure: all your WordPress urls needs to look like /home, /work/name etc. It will not work using post id.

You might need to update your .htaccess as well:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

.JSON & Mustache.js

Another thing you could possibly do is use a single .json file for all your data and a template engine like mustache.js

assets/js/sections/preloader.js

init(req, done) {
  classes.add(config.$body, 'is-loading')
  ajax.get(`${config.BASE}data/data.json`, {
    success: (object) => {
      window._data = object.data
      done()
    }
  })
}

/assets/js/utils/biggie/page.js

ajax.get(`${config.BASE}templates/${id}.mst`, {
  success: (object) => {
    const rendered = Mustache.render(object.data, window._data)
    page.innerHTML = rendered
    if(options.cache) cache[id] = rendered
    done()
  }
})

Animations

All sections that extends the default.js have an object called this.ui -- using query-dom-components -- so you can access DOM nodes easily.

Here's how most of my animateIn & animateOut functions looks like:

animateIn(req, done) {
  const tl = new TimelineMax({ paused: true, onComplete: done })
  tl.to(this.page, 1, { autoAlpha: 1 })
  tl.to(this.ui.foo, 1, { y: 0 })
  tl.to(this.ui.bar, 1, { x: 0 })
  // etc...
  tl.restart()
}

Sections

This is an example of a section, extending Default:

import config from 'config'
import event from 'dom-event'
import Default from './default'

class Section extends Default {
  
  constructor(opt) {
    
    // always call super()
    // otherwise Default's code will not run
    super(opt)
    
    // the slug is simply used to add classes to the body, for styling purposes
    this.slug = 'section'

    // custom functions of this section that needs to bind 'this'
    this.onClick = this.onClick.bind(this)
  }
  
  init(req, done) {
    
    super.init(req, done)
  }
  
  ready(done) {

    super.ready()

    // now that the dom of your page is ready, you can now add event listeners, initialise components, etc.
    // this.addEvents()
    
    // always call done() at the end of ready
    done()
  }

  addEvents() {

    event.on(this.page, 'click', this.onClick)
  }

  removeEvents() {

    event.off(this.page, 'click', this.onClick)
  }
  
  onClick(e) {

    console.log(e, this)
  }

  animateIn(req, done) {

    // 'req' contains the previous route
    
    classes.add(config.body, `is-${this.slug}`)

    TweenLite.to(this.page, 1, {
      y: 0, 
      autoAlpha: 1,
      ease: Expo.easeInOut,
      onComplete: done
    })
  }

  animateOut(req, done) {
    
    // 'req' contains the next route
    
    classes.remove(config.body, `is-${this.slug}`)
    
    TweenLite.to(this.page, 0.7, {
      y: 100,
      autoAlpha: 0,
      ease: Expo.easeInOut,
      clearProps: 'all',
      onComplete: done
    })
  }

  destroy(req, done) {
    
    super.destroy()
    
    // cleanup all event listeners, destroy components, etc...
    // this.removeEvents()

    // when you're done, don't forget to remove the page from the dom
    this.page.parentNode.removeChild(this.page)
    
    done()
  }
}

module.exports = Section

Utils

assets/js/utils/array

slice(opt)

Returns a new Array from an argument. (usually a NodeList)

import array from '@utils/array'

const els = document.querySelectorAll('.el')
const arr = array.slice(els)

// arr.forEach(...)

combine(...arrays)

Combine multiple arrays into one array.

import array from '@utils/array'
const combine = array.combine(["foo"], ["bar", "baz"], [1, 2])

// ["foo", "bar", "baz", 1, 2]

without(arr, ...values)

Returns a copy of the array with all instances of the values removed.

import array from '@utils/array'
const without = array.without([1, 2, 1, 0, 3, 1, 4], 0, 1)

// [2, 3, 4]

min(arr)

Returns the minimum value in the array.

import array from '@utils/array'
const min = array.min([10, 50, 30])

// 10

max(arr)

Returns the maximum value in the array.

import array from '@utils/array'
const max = array.max([10, 50, 30])

// 50

assets/js/utils/biggie

bind

Object with add/remove methods to bind/unbind HTML element with an eventListener.
On click, it will call framework.go (from bigwheel) and will use the href of the element to resolve a new route -- exept if the element has the css class no-route or a target="_blank" attribute.

import biggie from '@utils/biggie'

const a = document.querySelectorAll('nav a')
biggie.bind.add(a)
// biggie.bind.remove(a)

assets/js/utils/css

prefixes

Object containing vendor prefixes for CSS attributes.

import css from '@utils/css'
div.style[css.prefixes.transform] = `translate3d(0,0,0)`

rect(top, right, bottom, left)

Returns the CSS rect string with clip values.

import css from '@utils/css'

const rect = css.rect(0, 300, 10, 0)
div.style.clip = rect

assets/js/utils/dom

each

Iterate over a NodeList.

import dom from '@utils/dom'

const divs = document.querySelectorAll('div')
dom.each(divs, (e) => {
  console.log(e.index, e.el)
})

// or, using ES6
// Spread operator
[...divs].forEach(callback)

// Array.from()
Array.from(divs).forEach(callback)

// for...of statement
for (var div of divs) callback(div)

scroll(opts)

Returns either pageYOffset or document.documentElement||document.body.scrollTop, based on your browser.

import dom from '@utils/dom'
const scrollY = dom.scroll('y')

assets/js/utils/func

once(fn)

Returns a new function that won't execute more than once.

import func from '@utils/func'

const yo = () => console.log('Yo')
const sayYo = func.once(yo)

sayYo(); // 'Yo'
sayYo(); // Doesn't execute

interval(callback, options)

Better setInterval using requestAnimationFrame.

import func from '@utils/func'

const options = { delay: 500, duration: 1500 }
func.interval(() => console.log('tick!'), options) // will run 3 times

assets/js/utils/math

clamp(min, value, max)

Returns a clamped value between min and max values.

import math from '@utils/math'

const min = 0
const max = 200
const value = e.deltaY
const clamped = math.clamp(0, value, 200)

Gulp

We're using gulp to compile all LESS files to a single CSS file, with prefixed properties using autoprefixer.

You can write in ES6 in this project as it uses babelify, a browserify transform.
Gulp will create build/app.js (for development) and build/app.min.js with uglify (for production).

Using watchify and browser-sync, your site will be live-reloaded as soon as there's changes made to the JS and/or CSS files.

License

MIT, see LICENSE.md.

baptistebriel / biggie

❗ ❗ ❗ This project is no longer maintained. I would not suggest starting a new project with it.

Getting Started

Examples

Documentation

Loading your data

Default Setup

biggie in a sub-folder

WordPress

.JSON & Mustache.js

Animations

Sections

Utils

Gulp

License

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