Lightweight & independent cascading grid layout library. Inspired by and a lighter alternative to Masonry.
Why Bricklayer?
- 💎 Simpler than any other cascading grid layout tools.
- ❄️ Lightweight, no fat. (1.5KB gzipped)
- 👷 No frameworks required.
- 💧 Responsive support with no glitches.
- ⚡ Easy configuration.
- 💀 No inline styles, static positioning.
- 📦 Integrates with jQuery, Angular.js and React.js easily.
Examples
Playgrounds
- Play with Bricklayer on CodePen.io
- Play with Bricklayer on JSFiddle
- Play with Bricklayer on Webpackbin
Installation
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bricklayer/0.3.2/bricklayer.min.css">
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bricklayer/0.3.2/bricklayer.min.js"></script>
If you are using modular JavaScript, you can use NPM or Bower
npm install bricklayer # using npm
bower install bricklayer # or using bower
Bricklayer with Frameworks
Since Bricklayer is purely vanilla, you can use it with your frameworks. Here some framework examples:
Framework | How to use? | Playground |
---|---|---|
jQuery | Built-in Support (Add jquery.bricklayer.js ) |
http://codepen.io/f/pen/zqLJNa |
React | Built-in Support (Check out Playground) | http://www.webpackbin.com/V1L4KdVeW |
Angular.js | You can use JohnnyTheTank/angular-bricklayer | http://plnkr.co/edit/mo3G36 |
You can also add your examples to the list!
Usage
- Create a simple list:
<div class="bricklayer">
<div>Your item</div>
<div>Your another item</div>
<div>Your another but long item</div>
<div>Your another but very short item</div>
<div>Your one more item</div>
<div>Your smallest item</div>
</div>
- Define bricklayer column size:
@media screen and (min-width: 1200px) {
.bricklayer-column-sizer {
/* divide by 3. */
width: 33.3%;
}
}
@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {
.bricklayer-column-sizer {
/* divide by 2. */
width: 50%;
}
}
- Make them bricks using
Bricklayer
class:
var bricklayer = new Bricklayer(document.querySelector('.bricklayer'))
Methods
- Add bricks dynamically:
bricklayer.append(
myAwesomeElement
)
You can also add multiple bricks at once:
bricklayer.prepend([
myAwesomeElement,
myAwesomeButVeryLongElement
])
Events
You can add listeners to Bricklayer for full control. These allow you to create more extensible layouts. You can use these events especially for animations. Please see examples.
bricklayer.on('beforeAppend', function (e) {
var itemElement = e.detail.item
var columnElement = e.detail.column
// `itemElement` will be appended to the end of `columnElement`
})
bricklayer.on('beforePrepend', function (e) {
var itemElement = e.detail.item
var columnElement = e.detail.column
// `itemElement` will be prepended to the top of `columnElement`
})
bricklayer.on('afterAppend', function (e) {
var itemElement = e.detail.item
var columnElement = e.detail.column
// `itemElement` is appended to the end of `columnElement`
})
bricklayer.on('afterPrepend', function (e) {
var itemElement = e.detail.item
var columnElement = e.detail.column
// `itemElement` is prepended to the top of `columnElement`
})
bricklayer.on('breakpoint', function (e) {
var columnCount = e.detail.columnCount
// In every breakpoint, this event will be fired with the count of columns
})
Built-in jQuery Support
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bricklayer/0.3.2/bricklayer.min.css">
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bricklayer/0.3.2/bricklayer.min.js"></script>
<!-- You should also add jquery.bricklayer.js -->
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bricklayer/0.3.2/jquery.bricklayer.min.js"></script>
Then you should enable plugin for your bricklayer elements.
// Initialize
$(".bricklayer").bricklayer()
// Append Elements
$(".bricklayer").appendElements(elements)
// Prepend Elements
$(".bricklayer").prependElements(elements)
// Listen Events (bricklayer.breakpoint, bricklayer.afterAppend, bricklayer.afterPrepend, bricklayer.beforeAppend, bricklayer.beforePrepend)
$(".bricklayer").on("bricklayer.breakpoint", handlerFunction)
For more information you can play on playground.
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Browser Support
This plugin works seamlessly with these browsers:
- Safari 9.0.2
- Firefox 43.0.4
- Chrome 49
Please add more and open a pull request if you tested successfully on other browsers.
Contribution
Check out our awesome contributors! Maybe you want to buy some coffee for them ☕️
We need contributions for:
- Improving documentation
- Building fancy web pages
- Typo fixes
Credits
- Adem İlter - creator, owner of the whole idea, maintainer of artwork.
- Fatih Kadir Akın - creator, maintainer of JavaScript parts.
- Yasir Buğra Eryılmaz - retouch of logo
License
Bricklayer - Cascading Grid Layouts
Copyright © 2016 Adem İlter
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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