Funky squiggly lines for the DPS Website

Here we have a little script that uses animated SVG graphics with a mix of hardcoded paths and programmatically generated attributes to create these fun decorations for the website of the Digital Product School.

Usage

Any HTML element with the class .dps-squiggle and a few required data-attributes will get an animated SVG injected.

Attributes for all squiggles

• data-type: can be any of underlined, circled, shine, wave, sadface, 90days, ...(tbd)
• data-color: set the stroke color as a hex code, i.e. #FF00A1
• data-stroke: thickness of the stroke, i.e. 8
• data-duration: set the duration of the animation, i.e. 2s
• data-delay: (optional) if the animation should begin playing with a delay of, i.e. 1s
• data-rotate: (optional) rotate the SVG, i.e. 30deg

For an example, open the developer tools of your browser and take a look at the HTML source code of this page.

Careful: When you want a squiggle relative to several words, please make sure to use a non-breaking space   in between them, otherwise the position will be messed up when the texts get's broken into several lines.

Keep in mind

The SVG animations are only injected after the page has loaded. If that takes a lof of time, the graphics might appear with a delay although other content is already rendered. Also if the page content changes dynamically, you probably won't get animations injected.

For developers

I'm deeply sorry, but there's no automatic deployment pipeline for this yet. In order to create/release a new version, you need to:

• Develop as usual with npm start and if you did fancy new stuff, don't forget to document it here
• When done, update the version number in package.json
• Run npm run build to package the Javascript
• Move build/static/js/main.something.js into dist/ and rename it to index.js
• Remove the last line referencing the source map from the index.js file
• Commit and push the changes to the repo (will deploy to Vercel)
• Run npm publish --access public to publish the library to NPM and UNPKG
• Embed the script into the website of your choice with <script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/@dpschool/squiggles@0.6.0/dist/index.js"></script>

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