Makes {passive: true} by default when EventListenerOptions are supported
50 lines snippet that enables passive event listeners by default for some events (see list below). It basically will set { passive: true } automatically every time you declare a new event listener.
yarn add default-passive-events
Simply require the package:
require('default-passive-events');
or include it locally:
<script type="text/javascript" src="node_modules/default-passive-events/dist/index.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/default-passive-events"></script>
This package is distributed as multiple, different types of output bundles. The most often your bundler will properly choose the correct version by itself.
To get more information about supported bundle formats have a look at official microbundle
documentation. Especially interesting is the modern
format which - if used properly with your bundle system - might produce significantly smaller output code.
Those are some examples and their output:
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp); // {passive: true, capture: false}
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp, true); // {passive: true, capture: true}
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp, false); // {passive: true, capture: false}
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp, {passive: false}); // {passive: false, capture: false}
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp, {passive: false, capture: false}); // {passive: false, capture: false}
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp, {passive: false, capture: true}); // {passive: false, capture: true}
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp, {passive: true, capture: false}); // {passive: true, capture: false}
document.addEventListener('mouseup', onMouseUp, {passive: true, capture: true}); // {passive: true, capture: true}
Check the demo page for a working example.
Just to take benefit in your apps without having to edit every single event listener you already have.
Default-passive-events package makes following event listeners passive by default:
- scroll
- wheel
- touchstart
- touchmove
- touchenter
- touchend
- touchleave
- mouseout
- mouseleave
- mouseup
- mousedown
- mousemove
- mouseenter
- mousewheel
- mouseover
Well, that's true, partly. First of all specification says that you shouldn't ever try to preventDefault from the context of passive listener. But if that's not a possibility you should know that in the console you see only error-looking log messages, which are not actual errors (ergo: they do not break your code).
Unfortunately, no. Since they are not actual errors there is no way to catch them and (more importantly) there is no way to distinguish whether you're inside of the passive listener context to know when not to call/override preventDefault method. Now, we look at the regarding issue in WHATWG repo whatwg/dom#587.
Is there a possibility to bring default addEventListener method back for chosen elements/globally (e.g. for time of running some of the code)?
Yes, original addEventListener is available under _original
property of our's addEventListener's implementation (so - element.addEventListener._original
). Having that in mind, you can bring it back for however you want, e.g.:
element.addEventListener = element.addEventListener._original;
- About passive event listeners https://medium.com/@devlucky/about-passive-event-listeners-224ff620e68c
- EventListenerOptions https://github.com/WICG/EventListenerOptions
- Explanation https://github.com/WICG/EventListenerOptions/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md
- Polyfill https://github.com/WICG/EventListenerOptions/blob/gh-pages/EventListenerOptions.polyfill.js
- Spec https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dictdef-eventlisteneroptions
- Chrome feature https://www.chromestatus.com/features#passive
- About scrolling performance https://plus.google.com/+RickByers/posts/cmzrtyBYPQc
- Nice Chrome blog article https://blog.chromium.org/2016/05/new-apis-to-help-developers-improve.html