Set video as the background of your website. Fallbacks to the image, when required.


Keywords
vidage, video, background, background-video, hacktoberfest
License
MIT
Install
npm install vidage@0.1.3-a

Documentation

Vidage

Your solution to full-screen background video and image combined.

CDNJS Bower npm

Vidage.js will automatically handle your full-screen background video for you. It will hide and pause the video for touch devices and/or smaller width (34em) and instead show the fallback image that you should provide. It determines whether to do that or not on the canplay and resize events.

Demo


Take a look at this simple, yet - beautiful example.

Resources


Background video, fallback image and pattern overlay – that were used in example, are not included for download. Use source file written in Sass src/styles/Vidage.scss and change desired variables or change specific parts of code that you may not need for an specific project. If you're not familiar with SASS and would like to edit CSS instead, you can do that too. Distribution files are found within dist folder and specifically full path to CSS is dist/styles/Vidage.css.

Install


CDN

https://cdnjs.com/libraries/Vidage

Bower

bower install vidage --save

NPM

npm install vidage --save

How to use


Add boilerplate/template in your HTML

You don't have to add both .webm and .mp4 formats. But from my personal experiance, leaving .mp4 as fallback and using .webm primarily Works better and smoother in browsers that supports .webm format

<div class="Vidage">
    <div class="Vidage__image"></div>

    <video id="VidageVideo" class="Vidage__video" preload="metadata" loop autoplay muted>
        <source src="videos/bg.webm" type="video/webm">
        <source src="videos/bg.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    </video>

    <div class="Vidage__backdrop"></div>
</div>
Add style in your <head /> (make sure that file path is correct)
<link href="styles/Vidage.css" rel="stylesheet" />
And then use the script on one of the following ways (make sure that file path is correct)
Regular way
<script src="scripts/Vidage.js"></script>
<script>
    new Vidage(selector);
</script>
ES6 way
import Vidage from './Vidage';

new Vidage(selector);

Options


Vidage accepts a few options that you can pass through the object as second argument.

# Option Default Type
1 helperClass Vidage--allow string
2 videoRemoval false bool
  1. Provided class will help Vidage to determine when to hide/show the background video or background image and when to pause/play the video.
  2. Forcefully removes the whole video element from the DOM and when necessery (e.g. on resize if larger width detected) it will append the removed video again.

Example:

import Vidage from './Vidage';

// Default options that you may change
new Vidage(selector, {
    helperClass: 'Vidage--allow',
    videoRemoval: false
});

Tested manually through multiple platforms and browsers!

Chrome Firefox Safari Opera Edge Yandex Internet Explorer
15+ ✔ 20+ ✔ 5.1+ ✔ 15+ ✔ 12+ ✔ 14.12+ ✔ 10+ ✔

Thanks to BrowserStack for supporting this open-source project by allowing me to test Vidage!