JavaScript drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+).

Features include:

• inertia and snapping
• multiple interactions
• cross browser and device, supporting the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera as well as Internet Explorer 8+
• interaction with SVG elements
• being lightweight and standalone (not yet another jQuery plugin)
• not modifying the DOM except to support IE8 and to change the cursor (but you can disable that)

Installation

Install with Bower or npm or download the latest version from http://interactjs.io/#download.

    $ bower install interact
    $ npm install interact.js

Documentation

Visit http://interactjs.io/docs for the API documentation.

Example

var pixelSize = 16;

interact('.rainbow-pixel-canvas')
  .origin('self')
  .draggable({
    snap: {
        targets: [ interact.createSnapGrid({
          x: pixelSize, y: pixelSize
        }) ]
    },
    max: Infinity,
    maxPerElement: Infinity
  })
  // draw colored squares on move
  .on('dragmove', function (event) {
    var context = event.target.getContext('2d'),
        // calculate the angle of the drag direction
        dragAngle = 180 * Math.atan2(event.dx, event.dy) / Math.PI;

    // set color based on drag angle and speed
    context.fillStyle = 'hsl(' + dragAngle + ', 86%, '
                        + (30 + Math.min(event.speed / 1000, 1) * 50) + '%)';

    // draw squares
    context.fillRect(event.pageX - pixelSize / 2, event.pageY - pixelSize / 2,
                     pixelSize, pixelSize);
  })
  // clear the canvas on doubletap
  .on('doubletap', function (event) {
    var context = event.target.getContext('2d');

    context.clearRect(0, 0, context.canvas.width, context.canvas.height);
  });

  function resizeCanvases () {
    [].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('.rainbow-pixel-canvas'), function (canvas) {
      canvas.width = document.body.clientWidth;
      canvas.height = window.innerHeight * 0.7;
    });
  }

  // interact.js can also add DOM event listeners
  interact(document).on('DOMContentLoaded', resizeCanvases);
  interact(window).on('resize', resizeCanvases);

interact.maxInteractions(Infinity);

See the above code in action at http://codepen.io/taye/pen/YPyLxE

License

interact.js is released under the MIT License.