Detect if an Ember View or Component is in the viewport @ 60FPS
ember-in-viewport is built and maintained by DockYard, contact us for expert Ember.js consulting.
This Ember addon adds a simple, highly performant Service or modifier to your app. This library will allow you to check if a Component or DOM element has entered the browser's viewport. By default, this uses the IntersectionObserver API if it detects it the DOM element is in your user's browser – failing which, it falls back to using requestAnimationFrame, then if not available, the Ember run loop and event listeners.
We utilize pooling techniques to reuse Intersection Observers and rAF observers in order to make your app as performant as possible and do as little works as possible.
- Lazy loading responsive images (see
dummy-artworkfor an example artwork component). Visithttp://localhost:4200/infinity-modifierto see it in action - Dummy app (
ember serve): https://github.com/DockYard/ember-in-viewport/tree/master/tests/dummy - Use with Ember Modifiers and @ember/render-modifiers
- Use with Native Classes
- ember-infinity
- ember-light-table
- Tracking advertisement impressions
- Occlusion culling
ember install ember-in-viewport
Usage is simple. First, inject the service to your component and start "watching" DOM elements.
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { action } from '@ember/object';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
export default class MyClass extends Component {
@service inViewport
@action
setupInViewport() {
const loader = document.getElementById('loader');
const viewportTolerance = { bottom: 200 };
const { onEnter, _onExit } = this.inViewport.watchElement(loader, { viewportTolerance });
// pass the bound method to `onEnter` or `onExit`
onEnter(this.didEnterViewport.bind(this));
}
didEnterViewport() {
// do some other stuff
this.infinityLoad();
}
willDestroy() {
// need to manage cache yourself
const loader = document.getElementById('loader');
this.inViewport.stopWatching(loader);
super.willDestroy(...arguments);
}
}You can also use Modifiers as well. Using modifiers cleans up the boilerplate needed and is shown in a later example.
To use with the service based approach, simply pass in the options to watchElement as the second argument.
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
export default class MyClass extends Component {
@service inViewport
@action
setupInViewport() {
const loader = document.getElementById('loader');
const { onEnter, _onExit } = this.inViewport.watchElement(
loader,
{
viewportTolerance: { bottom: 200 },
intersectionThreshold: 0.25,
scrollableArea: '#scrollable-area'
}
);
}
}You can set application wide defaults for ember-in-viewport in your app (they are still manually overridable inside of a Component). To set new defaults, just add a config object to config/environment.js, like so:
module.exports = function(environment) {
var ENV = {
// ...
viewportConfig: {
viewportUseRAF : true,
viewportSpy : false,
viewportListeners : [],
intersectionThreshold : 0,
scrollableArea : null,
viewportTolerance: {
top : 0,
left : 0,
bottom : 0,
right : 0
}
}
};
};
// Note if you want to disable right and left in-viewport triggers, set these values to `Infinity`.Using with Modifiers is easy.
You can either use our built in modifier {{in-viewport}} or a more verbose, but potentially more flexible generic modifier. Let's start with the former.
- Use
{{in-viewport}}modifier on target element - Ensure you have a callbacks in context for enter and/or exit
optionsare optional - see Advanced usage (options)
This modifier is useful for a variety of scenarios where you need to watch a sentinel. With template only components, functionality like this is even more important! If you have logic that currently uses the did-insert modifier to start watching an element, try this one out!
If you need more than our built in modifier...
- Install @ember/render-modifiers
- Use the
did-inserthook inside a component - Wire up the component like so
Note - This is in lieu of a did-enter-viewport modifier, which we plan on adding in the future. Compared to the solution below, did-enter-viewport won't need a container (this) passed to it. But for now, to start using modifiers, this is the easy path.
import Component from '@glimmer/component';
import { action } from '@ember/object';
import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
export default class MyClass extends Component {
@service inViewport
@action
setupInViewport() {
const loader = document.getElementById('loader');
const viewportTolerance = { bottom: 200 };
const { onEnter, _onExit } = this.inViewport.watchElement(loader, { viewportTolerance });
onEnter(this.didEnterViewport.bind(this));
}
didEnterViewport() {
// do some other stuff
this.infinityLoad();
}
willDestroy() {
// need to manage cache yourself
const loader = document.getElementById('loader');
this.inViewport.stopWatching(loader);
super.willDestroy(...arguments);
}
}Options as the second argument to inViewport.watchElement include:
-
intersectionThreshold: decimal or arrayDefault: 0
A single number or array of numbers between 0.0 and 1.0. A value of 0.0 means the target will be visible when the first pixel enters the viewport. A value of 1.0 means the entire target must be visible to fire the didEnterViewport hook. Similarily, [0, .25, .5, .75, 1] will fire didEnterViewport every 25% of the target that is visible. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersection_Observer_API#Thresholds)
Some notes:
- If the target is offscreen, you will get a notification via
didExitViewportthat the target is initially offscreen. Similarily, this is possible to notify if onscreen when your site loads. - If intersectionThreshold is set to anything greater than 0, you will not see
didExitViewporthook fired due to our use of theisIntersectingproperty. See last comment here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=713819 for purpose ofisIntersecting - To get around the above issue and have
didExitViewportfire, set yourintersectionThresholdto[0, 1.0]. When set to just1.0, when the element is 99% visible and still has isIntersecting as true, when the element leaves the viewport, the element isn't applicable to the observer anymore, so the callback isn't called again. - If your intersectionThreshold is set to 0 you will get notified if the target
didEnterViewportanddidExitViewportat the appropriate time.
- If the target is offscreen, you will get a notification via
-
scrollableArea: string | HTMLElementDefault: null
A CSS selector for the scrollable area. e.g.
".my-list" -
viewportSpy: booleanDefault:
falseviewportSpy: trueis often useful when you have "infinite lists" that need to keep loading more data.viewportSpy: falseis often useful for one time loading of artwork, metrics, etc when the come into the viewport.If you support IE11 and detect and run logic
onExit, then it is necessary to have thistrueto that the requestAnimationFrame watching your sentinel is not torn down.When
true, the library will continually watch theComponentand re-fire hooks whenever it enters or leaves the viewport. Because this is expensive, this behaviour is opt-in. When false, the intersection observer will only watch theComponentuntil it enters the viewport once, and then it unbinds listeners. This reduces the load on the Ember run loop and your application.NOTE: If using IntersectionObserver (default), viewportSpy wont put too much of a tax on your application. However, for browsers (Safari < 12.1) that don't currently support IntersectionObserver, we fallback to rAF. Depending on your use case, the default of
falsemay be acceptable. -
viewportTolerance: objectDefault:
{ top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0 }This option determines how accurately the
Componentneeds to be within the viewport for it to be considered as entered. Add bottom margin to preemptively trigger didEnterViewport.For IntersectionObserver, this property interpolates to rootMargin. For rAF, this property will use
bottomtolerance and measure against the height of the container to determine when to trigger didEnterViewport.Also, if your sentinel (the watched element) is a zero-height element, ensure that the sentinel actually is able to enter the viewport.
| Chrome | 51 [1] |
| Firefox (Gecko) | 55 [2] |
| MS Edge | 15 |
| Internet Explorer | Not supported |
| Opera [1] | 38 |
| Safari | Safari Technology Preview |
| Chrome for Android | 59 |
| Android Browser | 56 |
| Opera Mobile | 37 |
- [1] Reportedly available, it didn't trigger the events on initial load and lacks
isIntersectinguntil later versions. - [2] This feature was implemented in Gecko 53.0 (Firefox 53.0 / Thunderbird 53.0 / SeaMonkey 2.50) behind the preference
dom.IntersectionObserver.enabled.
ember serve- Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.
ember testember test --serve
ember build
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