hammer.js VS interact.js

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/

For vanilla js maybe something like https://shopify.github.io/draggable/ or https://interactjs.io/

I used interact js for dragging and dropping. Everything else is CSS HTML and simple JavaScript.

https://interactjs.io/ - I might use this for the resizeable windows (and drag and drop for file transfering, yes the "os" will have a file manager)

The library I’m using to get this effect is https://interactjs.io/ since they have pretty much what I need. To make the effect work I have to create a fullscreen div with another div inside that’s being connected to the library so I can move it. The problem that occurs now is, that I can’t interact with anything below the fullscreen div. I’ve tried putting custom css (pointer-events: none) on this div, but this affects the GIF-div inside too so I can’t interact with it anymore.

I used interactjs (https://interactjs.io/) for the drag and drop events, it's a great library.

I case you just want a working result: https://interactjs.io