jQuery-less imagesLoaded

[desandro]

I'm curious to gauge the interest in a version of imagesLoaded without the jQuery dependency.

Personally, I have Vanilla Masonry and other projects in the works which could benefit from a vanilla imagesLoaded.

Chime in if you're interested as well. 🔔

[darsain]

I'll take a shot at it. See what I'll run into :)

[darsain]

@desandro I have a working copy of dependency-less imagesloaded. It is 1.5KB minified, but works solely on callbacks. That is a drawback as returning a promise is something that really fits this library.

The problem is that the smallest Promises/A+ spec compliant implementation I found is 2 times larger than imagesLoaded itself, so I'm reluctant to attach it :)

So for now, it will be without promises. The repo is here: Darsain/imagesLoaded.

[desandro]

Wow, this is fantastic! Thank you so much for the work that went into this.

I agree on keeping out promises. Though, it might be worth considering building it in via bower.

[jonathanong]

What about component? https://github.com/component/component

you can basically use other small libraries for nodeListToArray and below, cutting the source code almost in half

[darsain]

@jonathanong but than it would have dependencies :) It's just a ~1KB library. I don't want a little shit like this to have dependencies.

@desandro but optional use of promises if some of the popular promise libraries is present might be nice. I'll look into it.

[jonathanong]

You have dependencies now, the only difference being they're hard coded. And a promise library would be a dependency as well.

[desandro]

Another thought, would it make sense to some how work this into the jQuery version? So the vanilla JS version would be the base, then we just provide a jQuery.fn wrapper for it, if present, then use jQuery deferreds, if present.

[darsain]

I've thought about it actually. Wrapping it with jQuery is not a problem at all. I'm trying to design my other libraries the exact same way. But I don't like that jQuery's current promises implementation is wrong :) I don't remember details, but it is mentioned somewhere in here: You're Missing the Point of Promises.

[desandro]

Done in v3.