<polymer-slidenav>

A Web-component for sliding navigation menus built on top of Polymer.

Polymer SlideNav provides a flexible, easy to customise base for website and apps menus with sliding animation. Simply add it to the page and easily style it as needed.

Demo

The web-component provides full functionality out of the box but no opinionated style allowing great flexibilty and ease of use. Check out some examples:

Install

The best way to install the component is using Bower:

$ bower install polymer-slidenav --save

Or download as a ZIP.

Usage

Import Web Components' polyfill:

<script src="bower_components/platform/platform.js"></script>

Import Polymer SlideNav:

<link rel="import" href="bower_components/polymer-slidenav/dist/polymer-slidenav.html">

Start using it.

  <polymer-slidenav>
        <slidenav-toggler>
            <-- insert burger icon here :) -->
        </slidenav-toggler>
        <slidenav-menu>
            <-- insert you list items or menu entries here -->
        </slidenav-menu>
  </polymer-slidenav>

Options

Attribute	Options	Default	Description
`speed`	string	`0.4s`	The opening/closing animation speed.

Declare this option directly in the markup.

<polymer-slidenav speed=".2s">

Events

Polymer SlideNav fires a series of namespaced events you can hook to. Add an eventListener (for ex. to the body) and fire your callbacks like so:

 document.body.addEventListener('slidenav/is-open', function(evt){
        console.dir(evt);
        alert('navbar is now open');
 });

The event passed as argument contains a lot of useful data. In this case evt.target will be the whole <polymer-slidenav></polymer-slidenav> so you can easily find any children inside the element. Here is a full breakdown of the events that the component fires.

Event	Fires when:
`slidenav/is-ready`	Initial setup of the menu is complete.
`slidenav/show`	Opening animation begins.
`slidenav/hide`	Closing animation begins.
`slidenav/is-open`	Sliding animation is complete and navbar is open.
`slidenav/is-closed`	Sliding animation is complete and navbar is closed.

Refer to this logger to see a demo of these events.

Development

In order to run it locally you'll need to fetch some dependencies and a basic server setup.

Install Bower & Grunt:

$ [sudo] npm install -g bower grunt-cli

Install local dependencies:
```
$ bower install && npm install
```
To test your project, start the development server and open http://localhost:8000.
```
$ grunt server
```
To build the distribution files before releasing a new version.
```
$ grunt build
```
To provide a live demo, send everything to gh-pages branch.
```
$ grunt deploy
```