svelte-masonry

This is an implementation of Masonry based on this excellent article by Ana Tudor (@anatudor) on CSS Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/a-lightweight-masonry-solution. It's really great. It requires no external dependencies, is super light-weight, etc.

Basically I just wrapped Svelte around the Masonry code as a reusable component.

Here's a REPL demo: https://svelte.dev/repl/d5ff70834832498882d1570b9355561e?version=3.24.1

Nov 17, 2023 Update: Updated this thing to be Sveltekit / Svelte Package friendly, but not sure I did it right. Also added an async loading example that worked, and got rid of all the other vuln errors. Might have broken previous (svelte-masonry@0.0.18) releases.

Demo here: https://svelte-masonry-one.vercel.app/

Usage

Add svelte-masonry to your package:

npm install svelte-masonry

or use yarn

yarn add svelte-masonry

Then import the masonry component in your project. Honestly I'm not sure if this is the correct way, but this method works on my projects:

import Masonry from 'svelte-masonry/Masonry.svelte'

Now you can use it as component and wrap around your repeating {#each} blocks.


<Masonry>
  {#each data as o}
    <div>
        Content: {o.content}
    </div>
  {/each}
</Masonry>

If you have any implementation questions, please hit me up on twitter @yawnxyz or create an issue.

Manually Refreshing

Sometimes you might need to dynamically refresh the grid calculations. You can do this by binding refreshLayout like so: bind:refreshLayout={refreshLayout} and then calling that function when everything's finished loading. Here's an example: https://svelte.dev/repl/2c5a8e5ae579471ea22b3f5561268d11?version=3.24.1

Options

There are a few props you can pass to the Svelte component as options.

  • stretchFirst (default: false): Setting stretchFirst={true} will stretch the first item across all items
  • gridGap (default: ".5em;"): This is a CSS value that sets the grid gap and padding for each element
  • colWidth (default: "minmax(Min(20em, 100%), 1fr);"): This is a CSS value that sets the width of each column. The default allows for some leeway before the grids collapse.
  • items (default: []): Set this to your array of data if you have dynamic items and want masonry to recalculate when you add new items

Development + Feedback

You're welcome to create an issue, feature request, or a pull request and I'll take a look, but this won't be a very managed repo. Instead, please read the the CSS tricks articlecheck out the source code, or ask the author (@anatudor) directly.

License

The code was lifted from Ana Tudor (@anatudor) from CSS tricks. They have a funny license page, so you should take a look (https://css-tricks.com/license/). Do whatever you'd like with this example!

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