ngx-page-scroll

Animated scrolling functionality for angular written in pure typescript with no additional dependencies

Features

• flexible: trigger scroll animations after component load, server response, etc.
• easy-to-use directive: scroll to an element referenced in the href-attribute (href="#mytarget) just by adding pageScroll directive
• customizable: adjust duration, offset or whether scrolling stops if the user interrupts (read more)
• use custom easing functions to calculate the scroll position over time
• works across routes (scrolls to target element as soon as the routing has finished) and in both directions (horizontal/vertical)

Table of contents

• ngx-page-scroll
  • Features
  • Table of contents
    • Version compatibility
  • Service
    • Setup
    • Usage
    • Configuration
  • Directive
    • Setup
    • Usage
    • Directive API
      • PageScroll properties
      • PageScroll events
      • Example
  • FAQ and common problems
  • License

Version compatibility

Install later versions in case your app is not running the very latest angular version.

Service

Setup

First you need to install the core npm module:

npm install ngx-page-scroll-core --save

Then add the NgxPageScrollModule to the imports array of your application module:

import { NgxPageScrollCoreModule } from 'ngx-page-scroll-core';

@NgModule({
    imports: [
        /* Other imports here */
        NgxPageScrollCoreModule
        ]
})
export class AppModule {
}

Usage

Using the PageScrollService#scroll method you may trigger scroll animations. Provide an options object that provides a reference to the document and the scroll target. Additional properties are optional.

import { Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { DOCUMENT } from '@angular/common';
import { PageScrollService } from 'ngx-page-scroll-core';

export class MyComponent {
 constructor(private pageScrollService: PageScrollService, @Inject(DOCUMENT) private document: any) {
 }

 ngOnInit(): void {
  this.pageScrollService.scroll({
    document: this.document,
    scrollTarget: '.theEnd',
  });
 }
}

Note: The scroll() method is a shorthand from creating a PageScrollInstance (an object encapsulating all information relevant for performing a scroll animation) using PageScrollService#create and starting it using the PageScrollService#start method.

Configuration

When importing the PageScrollCoreModule one can provide option overrides:

imports: [
  ...
  NgxPageScrollCoreModule.forRoot({duration: 2500, easingLogic: ...}),
]

Check the PageScrollConfig interface for possible options and their impact. The default values may be found in the defaultPageScrollConfig object.

Directive

For ease of use a directive pageScroll exists, which allows you to quickly add scroll animations to your angular app by adding a property to your existing HTML a-tags. It can also work cross-routes, meaning it will start the scroll animation after the target route has been loaded. It utilizes the ngx-page-scroll-core module for that, thus requires it as a peer dependency.

Setup

First you need to install the directive npm module:

npm install ngx-page-scroll --save

Then add the NgxPageScrollModule to the imports array of your application module:

import { NgxPageScrollModule } from 'ngx-page-scroll';

@NgModule({
    imports: [
        /* Other imports here */
        NgxPageScrollModule
        ]
})
export class AppModule {
}

Usage

In your template you may add the pageScroll attribute to elements with an href attribute pointing towards an id on the same page (e.g. #theId). The onClick event will be interrupted and the scroll animation starts. Alternatively you may set the optional pageScrollTarget property to a valid css selector to specify the target element to scroll to.

@Component({
   ...
   template: `...
        <a pageScroll href="#awesomePart">Take me to the awesomeness</a>
        <!-- Further content here -->
        <h2 id="awesomePart">This is where the awesome happens</h2>
   ...`,
})
export class MyComponent {
}

Directive API

Additional attributes may be set on an DOM element using the pageScroll directive for customization. They take precedence over the default settings specified in PageScrollConfig class. Thereby it is possible to have all page scroll-animations last e.g. 2 seconds, but a specific one should be performed with a custom easing function and a duration of only 1 second.

PageScroll properties

PageScroll events

Example

The following example will check whether the route Home is currently loaded. If this is true, the scroll-animation will be performed with the default properties. If a different route is loaded, a subscription for route changes will be made and the scroll-animation will be performed as soon as the new route is loaded.

 <a pageScroll [routerLink]="['Home']" href="#myanchor">Go there</a>

Overriding all possible properties. doSmth() and myEasing are defined in the component

 <a pageScroll [pageScrollOffset]="0" [pageScrollDuration]="2000" [pageScrollEasing]="myEasing" [pageScrollInterruptible]="false" (pageScrollFinish)="doSmth($event)" href="#theanchor">Visit</a>

    public myEasing: EasingLogic = (t: number, b: number, c: number, d: number): number => {
      // easeInOutExpo easing
      if (t === 0) {
        return b;
      }
      if (t === d) {
        return b + c;
      }
      if ((t /= d / 2) < 1) {
        return c / 2 * Math.pow(2, 10 * (t - 1)) + b;
      }

      return c / 2 * (-Math.pow(2, -10 * --t) + 2) + b;
    }

    doSmth(reachedTarget: boolean): void {
        if (reachedTarget) {
            console.log('Yeah, we reached our destination');
        } else {
            console.log('Ohoh, something interrupted us');
        }
    }

FAQ and common problems

Please have a look at the wiki section of the GitHub repo at https://github.com/Nolanus/ngx-page-scroll/wiki/FAQ for frequent questions and problems.

License

MIT