Improving Most.js' Drag'n'Drop example

ReadMe.md

See https://github.com/cujojs/most

Based on https://github.com/cujojs/most/tree/master/examples/drag-n-drop

Modified to be run on http://requirebin.com/ (replaced module.exports assignment with an IIFE).

See cujojs/most#146 for a detailed explanation.

body

<div class="playground">
<div class="box draggable"><span class="rest">Drag</span><span class="drag">Drop</span> me, baby!</div>
</div>

head

    <style>
        body {
          font-size: 1em;
          font-family: 'Helvetica Nueue', Helvetica, sans-serif;
        }
        .playground { width: 100%; height: 100%; }
        .box {
          -webkit-transition: box-shadow 100ms ease;
          color: white;
          background: #28f;
          text-align: center;
          padding: 1em;
          box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px #444;
        }
        .draggable {
          transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
          cursor: move;
          width: 150px;
          height: 150px;
          position: absolute;
        }
        .dragging {
          box-shadow: 10px 10px 40px #444;
        }
        .draggable .drag {
          font-style: italic;
          font-weight: bold;
          display: none;
        }
        .dragging .drag {
          display: inline;
        }
        .dragging .rest {
          display: none;
        }
    </style>

index.js

var most = require('most');

var DROP = 0, GRAB = 1, DRAG = 2;

(function()
{
	// The thing we want to make draggable
  var playground = document.querySelector('.playground');
	var draggable = document.querySelector('.draggable');
	var dragOffset = {};

	// A higher-order stream (stream whose events are themselves streams)
	// A mousedown DOM event generates a stream event which is
	// a stream of 1 GRAB followed by DRAGS (ie mousemoves).
	var drag = most.fromEvent('mousedown', draggable)
		.map(function(e)
		{
			e.preventDefault();
      
			console.log('e: ' + e.clientX + ', ' + e.clientY);
			console.log('draggable: ' + draggable.offsetLeft + ', ' + draggable.offsetTop + " (" + draggable.offsetWidth + "x" + draggable.offsetHeight + ")");
			dragOffset.dx = e.clientX - draggable.offsetLeft;
			dragOffset.dy = e.clientY - draggable.offsetTop;
			console.log("dragOffset: " + JSON.stringify(dragOffset));
			return most.fromEvent('mousemove', playground)
				.map(function(e)
				{
					return eventToDragInfo(DRAG, e);
				})
				.startWith(eventToDragInfo(GRAB, e));
		});

	// A mouseup DOM event generates a stream event which is a
	// stream containing a DROP
	var drop = most.fromEvent('mouseup', playground)
		.map(function(e)
		{
			return most.of(eventToDragInfo(DROP, e));
		});

	// Merge the drag and drop streams
	// Then use switch() to ensure that the resulting stream behaves
	// like the drag stream until an event occurs on the drop stream.  Then
	// it will behave like the drop stream until the drag stream starts
	// producing events again.
	// This effectively *toggles behavior* between dragging behavior and
	// dropped behavior.
	most.merge(drag, drop)
		.switch()
		.reduce(handleDrag, dragOffset);
})();

function eventToDragInfo(action, e)
{
	return { action: action, target: e.target, x: e.clientX, y: e.clientY };
}

function handleDrag(offset, dd)
{
	var el = dd.target;

//	console.log(dd);
	if (dd.action === GRAB)
	{
		el.classList.add('dragging');
		return offset;
	}

	if (dd.action === DROP)
	{
		el.classList.remove('dragging');
		return offset;
	}

	var els = dd.target.style;
	els.left = (dd.x - offset.dx) + 'px';
	els.top = (dd.y - offset.dy) + 'px';

	return offset;
}