hammer.js VS Masonry

12. Hammer.JS

Actually, I thought if I used hammerjs, it would be easy, but actually I gave up using that since it seemed that hammerjs's development wasn't active any more unfortunately.

Looking at https://delassus.com/javascripts/app.js you can see they used hammer.js(https://hammerjs.github.io/) to achieve the gestures, which I am assuming is your focus here.

Hammer.js is a library and gives you the ability to add touch gestures on websites. It means it can recognize & track gestures performed by the fingers and mouse of the user and make animations and all that cool stuff. And you can know the steps on their website here.

25. HammerJS

I had no idea how bad listening for things like key presses and dragging events are today. Given how nice and fairly standard a lot of the APIs across browsers and platforms have become, I was shocked at how rough this space is. I think if I had to do this again, this will be one area where I defer to a library (like hammer.js).

Maybe something using HammerJS would make it cleaner if you're using a vanilla solution right now? https://hammerjs.github.io/

Probably influenced by the most popular JavaScript library for achieving this type of layout, Masonry[0]. The author notes at the end of the article:

> But do expect the name of this value to change in the future. And perhaps prepare for a future where we call this “columnar grid” or “Grid Level 3” instead of “Masonry”.

[0] https://masonry.desandro.com/

13. Masonry

To learn more about the Masonry library and explore its documentation and examples, you can visit the official website: Masonry.

Masonry is just what you need. There are libraries like this that you can utilize for this purpose.

Thank you! I purchased a Masonry (https://masonry.desandro.com/) license and built off of one of the layouts. Site runs on a Lucee server and content is populated from MySQL tables. I am using various open source jquery plug-ins for pop-ups and what not.

It’s called a masonry layout. It is a pain in the ass to implement but there are javascript libraries like Masonry.

With no native CSS grid support for masonry layouts, developers relied on using libraries such as Masonry.js or Brick.js to replicate this visual design. These libraries can accomplish masonry-style layouts without CSS by using JavaScript to manipulate the DOM, then placing each element within the appropriate spaces.