IBM Web Animation

• Code License
• Getting Started
  • Requirements
  • Installation
• Find your way around
  • Example
• Library
• Use in your own project

As you pull the code from this repository, get inspired by the IBM Design Language animation guidelines. Remember: thoughtfully applied animation should be straightforward, limited to the most important interactions on the screen and helping users in delightful ways as they interact.

— IBM Design Language: Animation

This repository serves as a codebase for developers who want to use, prototype with, or get inspired by the machine motion style from the IBM Design Language. It contains six unique examples, each demonstrating the movement of a single component. The source code and full working example for each component are available.

Code License

Apache License 2.0

Getting Started

Requirements

• A modern browser
• Node.js (to build the examples)
• Ruby gem scss-lint

Installation

Prerequisites

npm install -g gulp
gem install scss-lint

Build and run

git clone https://github.com/IBM-Design/web-animations.git
npm install && npm start

Find your way around

Source files for each example can be found in app -> src -> <component>. Each component contains a .js, .scss, and .html file, which is the complete module for that given example.

Example

Source (this is where you see the code)

app/
|__ src/
    |__ drawer/
        |__ drawer.js
        |__ index.html
        |__ main-drawer.scss

npm start is an alias for just running gulp in the command line. Gulp will simply compile the .scss file into .css, run some linters, and move the three source files into the dist folder:

Distribution (this is where you see the working example)

app/
|__ dist/
    |__ drawer/
        |__ drawer.js
        |__ index.html
        |__ drawer.css

A web server will open in your default browser, with a base URL of app/dist:

browserSync.init({
    server: {
        baseDir: 'app/dist' // makes the distribution folder the base directory
    }
// ...

Library

Helper functions and global CSS stylesheets are used throughout this project to prevent you from repeating things like document.getElementById and basic stylings. If you open up a component's .html file, it will contain something like <script src="../lib/scripts.js"></script>.

app/
|__ src/
    |__ lib/

One of the main helper functions, found at app -> src -> lib -> utils -> select.js, provides a wrapper function for Element.querySelectorAll.

Additionally, several of the components use scripts from app -> src -> lib -> components. For example, scrollable.js (found in that directory) is a module that creates a custom scrollbar for drop-down.

Using examples

Simply copy and paste the .html, .css, and .js files from the built component inside dist, and add your own markup. All components are independent of each other. Make sure to follow the requirement set forth by our license.