A feature-rich front-end drag-and-drop component library

Fast drag and drop for any experience on any tech stack

📖 Documentation | 🤹 Examples | 🎥 How it works

Pragmatic drag and drop is a low level drag and drop toolchain that enables safe and successful usage of the browsers built in drag and drop functionality. Pragmatic drag and drop can be used with any view layer (react, svelte, vue, angular and so on). Pragmatic drag and drop is powering some of the biggest products on the web, including Trello, Jira and Confluence.

Capabilities

This repository is currently one way mirror from our internal monorepo that contains all the code for Pragmatic drag and drop.

The intention of this repository is to make public our code, but not to accept code contributions (at this stage). In the future we could explore setting up a two way mirror so that contributions to this repo can also make their way back to our monorepo. You are still welcome to raise issues or suggestions on this repository!

All documentation and npm packages are public and available for use by everyone

Yep! Pragmatic drag and drop as a small core package, and then a range of optional packages. Some of the optional packages have dependencies on styling solutions (eg emotion), view libraries (eg react) or on some additional Atlassian outputs (eg @atlaskit/tokens). We have separated out optional packages that have other dependencies so they can be easily swapped with your own pieces that use your own tech stack and visual outputs.

Yep! We have created some design guidelines which embody how we want to achieve drag and drop in our products, and some of those decisions are embodied in some optional packages. However, you are free to use whatever design language you like, including ours!

The Pragmatic drag and drop packages are published under the @atlaskit namespace on npm

import { draggable } from '@atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop/element/adapter';

@atlaskit is the npm namespace that we publish all of our public packages on from inside our internal monorepo. We could look at creating a separate namespace in the future just for Pragmatic drag and drop. If we do that, we'll release some tooling to help folks automatically switch over.

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Pragmatic drag and drop stands on the shoulders of giants, including the folks who created the drag and drop specifications, implemented drag and drop in browsers, and the many drag and drop libraries that came before this.