First Major Release

Breaking changes

• Initialization method is now a function instead of a constructor
• e.g. new SimpleSlider() -> simpleslider.getSlider()
• Renamed option properties
• transitionDuration -> duration
• transitionProperty -> prop
• transitionDelay -> delay
• startValue -> init
• visibleValue -> show
• endValue -> end
• autoPlay -> reversed value into paused
• No more access to internal properties
• actualIndex is now a currentIndex() method
• Container is now set via a container property of options, init function only takes one parameter now
• Default values uses now % values instead of px
• unit is now a option property instead of being figured out from other values

Improvements

• Dropped OOP approach in favor of a more functional programming oriented
• Distribution file is now less than half the size from v0.6.x sitting at 1.13kb minified/gzipped
• Each slider only uses a single animation loop for both inserting and removing slides

Additions

• Added a reverse() method that change the order of sliding elements and the direction of animation
• Added a children option that allows to select which children of the container element should be used as slides
• Added a way of running initialization func with no options, hooking the container to an element in the dom using data-simple-slider data attribute
• Added saucelabs browser functional tests for future PRs

Fixes

• visibility change event listener is now cleared on dispose()

New infrastructure

• Source code in ES2015+ compiled using babel
• Unit tests now uses webpack + jest
• Functional tests run on zuul + jasmine that allow us to run functional tests on multiple browsers in saucelabs
• Dropped develop branch, now there's a v0.x.x-legacy branch that allows to keep supporting v0

Bower package renamed to simple-slider - calls to bower install SimpleSlider will still work as before, it only changes that the recommended way to install using Bower is now:

bower install simple-slider

• Updated grunt dependencies
• Small README chores:
  • Added "Install" section
  • Added version badge
  • Added size badge

• Added onChangeEnd callback

• Added onChange callback function (thanks @joonxz for the PR)

• Added methods to play/pause slideshow
• Added support to visibilitychange api

Many thanks to @MozMorris for providing the PRs for this release

• Fixed problem on prevIndex() method where it would always skip first item index
• Fixed integration between autoPlay and change() method, #17

• Changed default transition to left-to-right sliding
• Added support to easing functions
• Added prev/next methods
• Basic styling is now defined by the script
• z-index organization of elements is also handled by the script
• Website updated

First official release!

This may be considered the first official release of SimpleSlider, with consistent unit tests and use of best practices, you can check below the improvements:

• The animation script now uses requireAnimationFrame() API for animations
• Added integration with travis-ci
• Totally refactored animation function
• Added a visibleValue property to better control animations
• Much much better unit tests
• Renamed transitionTime property into transitionDuration
• Added more examples!