Tag: Locomotive Scroll

I was recently looking for a way to perform scrolling effects on a project and I stumbled on the Locomotive Scroll library. It lets you perform a variety of scrolling effects, like parallax and triggering/controlling animations at scroll points. You might also call it a “smooth scrolling” library, but it doesn’t leverage native smooth scrolling — it does just the opposite by virtualizing scrolling and ensuring it’s always smooth. You could probably consider this “scrolljacking” so if you hate that generally, you might hate this, but UX research seems rather mixed on whether it’s actually bad or not. The homepage will give you a good sense of how it works and feels. Let’s look at the basics of using Locomotive-Scroll JavaScript and how to leverage it to for delightful user experiences. Wh...