Add CSS-animation based typing animation

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Tristan Daniël Maat 2022-06-23 23:46:41 +01:00
parent 0801e85839
commit 31f3a69a1d
Signed by: tlater
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5 changed files with 142 additions and 134 deletions

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<extends src="./lib/html/base.html">
<block name="stylesheets">
<style>
.no-js .head-line .typed {
visibility: visible;
}
.head-line .typed {
visibility: hidden;
}
</style>
</block>
<block name="content">
<h1 class="title head-line has-text-weight-normal is-family-monospace">
$&nbsp;<span class="typed">Welcome to tlater.net!</span>
$&nbsp;<span id="typed-welcome"></span>
</h1>
<hr />

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import jQuery from "jquery";
// Helpers
/**
* "Types" out a DOM element, emulating the way a human might.
*/
class Typer {
private element: JQuery;
private text: string;
private cursor: boolean;
private typed: number;
private min: number;
private max: number;
private blink_tick: number;
private blink_timeout: number;
private end?: number;
/**
* Create the typer.
* @param {HTMLElement} element - The element to type.
* @param {number} blink - The time between cursor blinks.
* @param {number} blink_timeout - How long the cursor should keep
* blinking for after the text
* finishes typing.
*/
constructor(element: JQuery<HTMLElement>, blink: number, blink_timeout: number) {
// Retrieve the current content and wipe it. We also make the
// element visible if it was hidden.
this.element = element;
this.text = this.element.html();
this.element.html("");
this.element.css("visibility", "visible");
this.cursor = false;
this.typed = 0;
this.min = 20;
this.max = 70;
this.blink_tick = blink;
this.blink_timeout = blink_timeout;
this.end = null;
}
/**
* Start typing.
*/
type() {
this._type();
this._blink();
}
/**
* Draw the current text line, i.e., anything that has been typed
* so far, and a cursor if it is currently supposed to be on.
* @private
*/
_draw() {
let text = this.text.slice(0, this.typed);
if (this.cursor) {
text += "\u2588";
}
window.requestAnimationFrame(() => this.element.html(text));
}
/**
* Type the next character, and prepare to draw the next one. If
* no new characters are to be drawn, set the end timestamp.
* @private
*/
_type() {
this.typed += 1;
this._draw();
if (this.typed != this.text.length)
setTimeout(this._type.bind(this), this._type_tick());
else {
this.end = Date.now();
}
}
/**
* Make the cursor change blink status, and prepare for the next
* blink.
* @private
*/
_blink() {
this.cursor = !this.cursor;
this._draw();
// As long as we are typing, keep blinking
if (this.typed != this.text.length)
setTimeout(this._blink.bind(this), this.blink_tick);
// Once typing ends, keep going for a little bit
else if (Date.now() - this.end < this.blink_timeout)
setTimeout(this._blink.bind(this), this.blink_tick);
// Make sure we get rid of the cursor in the end
else {
this.cursor = true;
setTimeout(this._blink.bind(this), this.blink_tick);
}
}
/**
* Calculate a "human" time for the next character to type.
* @private
*/
_type_tick() {
return Math.round(Math.random() * this.max) + this.min;
}
}
jQuery(($) => {
const typer = new Typer($(".head-line .typed").first(), 500, 3000);
typer.type();
});

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import jQuery from "jquery";
jQuery(($) => $("html").removeClass("no-js"));

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@use "sass:math";
@use "sass:list";
/// Animate a blinking cursor.
@mixin cursor($duration) {
$name: cursor-09d03260130069771b6ddc1cb415f39fdd27ddfab7b01ba91273398c2d245ae4;
// The number of times we need to blink is = the number of full
// seconds (500ms * 2) that fit in the total duration, rounded up,
// and doubled.
$iterations: math.ceil(math.div($duration, 1s)) * 2;
animation: $name ease-in-out 500ms $iterations alternate;
content: " ";
@keyframes #{$name} {
from {
content: " ";
}
to {
content: "";
}
}
}
/// Animate a piece of text as if it was being typed by a human.
@mixin typed($text, $duration) {
// We don't want a linearly typed set of text, which makes this
// singificantly more complex.
//
// CSS animations normally do not permit per-frame changes in
// duration (since the total animation time is fixed). This means we
// need to create multiple animations, and delay them so that they
// happen in the time sequence we want.
//
// We generate the raw values with _generate-animations, and then
// split up the result into the animation API.
$frames: str-length($text);
$animations: _generate-animations($frames, 1.2s);
animation-name: _unzip($animations, 1);
animation-delay: _unzip($animations, 3);
animation-fill-mode: forwards;
content: "";
// We need to type each character in separate animations, see above
// comment.
@each $name, $character in $animations {
@keyframes #{$name} {
from {
content: str-slice($text, 0, $character);
}
to {
content: str-slice($text, 0, $character + 1);
}
}
}
}
/// Unzip a nested set of lists, taking the nth value of each sublist.
@function _unzip($lists, $i) {
$out: ();
$sep: comma;
@each $sublist in $lists {
$out: list.append($out, list.nth($sublist, $i), $sep);
}
@return $out;
}
/// Compute the sum of all numbers in a list.
@function _sum($list) {
$out: 0;
@each $val in $list {
$out: $out + $val;
}
@return $out;
}
/// Produce a list from a shorter list by repeating it up until size
/// $length.
@function _round-robin($base, $length) {
$out: ();
$sep: list.separator($out);
@for $i from 0 through $length {
$out: list.append($out, list.nth($base, $i % list.length($base) + 1));
}
@return $out;
}
/// Generate the actual animation values.
///
/// This generates a nested list as:
///
/// (keyframe-name, index, start time)
///
/// The duration of each frame is taken from the internal $delays in a
/// round robin fashion, to give some amount of human-like variance to
/// the duration of each frame.
///
/// Start time is set to the time at which the frame should start to
/// achieve the desired frame-by-frame duration.
@function _generate-animations($number, $total_duration) {
$id: d66fa0449c0b4d4ca287f8c96428af928b2987b4d88b72b7d60152d9a55d9f29;
$out: ();
$sep: list.separator($out);
// A set of "human-like" delays for each typed character. In
// practice, my typing seems to be about 20-70ms, but it looks a bit
// nicer to increase all typing by 20ms to make the effect more
// noticeable.
//
// Numbers generated once with a random number generator, rather
// than using `math.random()`, since they end up in CSS verbatim,
// and the build would be non-reproducible if we didn't do it this
// way. Using `math.random() wouldn't change this dynamically each
// time the page loads anyway, so we don't really lose anything by
// pre-generating these numbers.
$delays: 69ms, 83ms, 49ms, 48ms, 52ms, 59ms, 40ms, 71ms, 80ms, 67ms;
@for $animation from 0 through $number {
$out: list.append($out, (
type-#{$id}-#{$animation},
$animation,
_sum(_round_robin($delays, $animation))
), $sep);
}
@return $out;
}

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@import "./_custom-bulma";
@import "./_typed";
html, body {
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
#typed-welcome {
&::before {
@include typed("Welcome to tlater.net!", 1.2s);
}
&::after {
@include cursor(6s);
}
}