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An attempt to implement infinite scrolling using Bacon.js, a Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) library.
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <meta charset="utf-8"> | |
| <title>Bacon.js Infinite Scroll Attempt #2</title> | |
| <p>Keep scrolling down to see more numbers.</p> | |
| <div id="results"></div> | |
| <img id="throbber" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Ajax-loader.gif" style="position: fixed; bottom: 4px; right: 4px;"> | |
| <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.js"></script> | |
| <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bacon.js/0.7.22/Bacon.js"></script> | |
| <script> | |
| var pageChanged = new Bacon.Bus(); | |
| var showMore = pageChanged.filter(function() { | |
| var bottom = $('#results').offset().top + $('#results').height(); | |
| return bottom - window.pageYOffset < window.innerHeight; | |
| }); | |
| var results = showMore.flatMapFirst(function() { | |
| return Bacon.fromCallback(function getMoreNumbers(cb) { | |
| // We're just faking an Ajax request here. | |
| setTimeout(function() { cb([1, 2, 3, 4, 5].map(Math.random)); }, 1000); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| showMore.awaiting(results).onValue($('#throbber'), 'toggle'); | |
| results.onValue(function(results) { | |
| results.forEach(function(result) { | |
| $('<h2></h2>').text(result.toFixed(3)).appendTo('#results'); | |
| }); | |
| }); | |
| pageChanged.plug(Bacon.mergeAll( | |
| $(window).asEventStream('resize'), | |
| $(window).asEventStream('scroll'), | |
| results.delay(10), | |
| Bacon.once() | |
| )); | |
| </script> |
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I got interested in FRP too, and infinite scroll seemed like a really great candidate. I did a solution that pays a lot of attention to how the UI streams impact the visible range: https://gist.github.com/SimplGy/d6362369ac4ebf27f3ec