NanoPop: A 700 bytes, high-performance positioning-engine and alternative to Pop...

Ultra Tiny, Opinionated Positioning Engine

NanoPop is an ultra-tiny positioning engine. But wait isn't there PopperJS ? Yeah - and PopperJS is great! But there are tons of features you might not need in most cases. This library is brotlied only ~ 700 Bytes (PopperJS is around 3kB).

What are the use-cases compared to PopperJS?

1. Situations where you want full controll over positioning, including handling events such as scrolling / resize manually.
2. Performance-critical cases with lots of elements [...] nanopop will only makes changes if you say so.
3. Poppers with minimal footprint such as drop-downs and tooltips which don't require much configurability.
4. You might have some special needs about how your popper behaves. NanoPop could be used as super-class and you can, based on what's required, extend NanoPop as you will :)

This library was originally part of pickr - now ported to TS with tests and a few updates / bug-fixes.

Getting Started

Install via npm:

$ npm install nanopop

Install via yarn:

$ yarn add nanopop

Include directly via jsdelivr:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/nanopop/lib/nanopop.min.js"></script>

Using JavaScript Modules :

import {NanoPop} from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/nanopop/lib/nanopop.min.mjs'

Usage

const reference = document.querySelector('.btn');
const popper = document.querySelector('.dropdown');
const nanopop = new NanoPop(reference, popper);

// Updating the popper-position
nanopop.update();

The popper-element must have set position to fixed .

All options

const nanopop = new NanoPop(reference, popper, {

    // Margin between the popper element and the reference
    margin: 8,

    // Preferred position, any combination of [top|right|bottom|left]-[start|middle|end] is valid.
    position: 'bottom-start',

    // Sometimes there's no way to position the popper element without clipping it.
    // Turn this on if you want to apply the latest tried values to the popper element.
    // The .update() function will return false in any case it fails so you can handle this separately.
    // Attention: If this is set to false and you do not take care about handling the clipped element yourself it'll be positioned on the top-left corner of the container-element (most of the time this is the document element itself). 
    forceApplyOnFailure: false,

    // In case the variant-part (start, middle or end) cannot be applied you can specify what (and if)
    // should be tried next.
    variantFlipOrder: {
        start: 'sme', // In case of -start try 'start' first, if that fails 'middle' and 'end' if both doesn't work.
        middle: 'mse',
        end: 'ems'
    },

    // The same as variantFlipOrder, but if all variants fail you might want to try other positions.
    positionFlipOrder: {
        top: 'tbrl', // Try 'top' first, 'bottom' second, 'right' third and 'left' as latest position.
        right: 'rltb',
        bottom: 'btrl',
        left: 'lrbt'
    }
});

Functions

• nanopop.update(Partial<Options>) - Update the position and optionally update the options of this NanoPop instance. It'll return true or false based on if it was possible to find a position for the popper without clipping it.

Properties

• nanopop.version - Current version.

These are static default-values used in case you're not specifying something else:

• NanoPop.defaultVariantFlipOrder - Default variantFlipOrder values.
• NanoPop.defaultPositionFlipOrder - Default positionFlipOrder .

Caveats

1. The popper-element must have position set to fixed .
2. window is (currently) the only bounding-element supported.
3. The library does not perform any automatic updates if the window gets resized, or the user scrolls, you have to take care of that yourself and call update() in the case.
4. You might have to fiddle around with z-index to make it work inside of complex, nested, scrollable containers.