Building a Fancy Countdown Timer with MomentumSlider.js
Nowadays there are many Javascript libraries to make it easy the task of adding sliders to a website. Most have a host of features, to adapt the slider to the particular needs of each case. However, despite having so many functionalities, sometimes the sliders lack features that would result in a much better user experience.
In the case of sliders that implemented the drag and drop functionality, it is hard to see how almost none (not to be absolute) implements the ability to continue the movement that the user has started, adding momentum and deceleration as necessary.
In this tutorial we will introduce a new library, specifically to develop sliders with momentum in a simple way. Also we will create a fancy countdown timer, using this excellent design by Oleg Frolov as inspiration:
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