pointerevents

Unified mouse/pen/touch input handling via the Pointer Events API.

Import: @rtorcato/browser-common/pointerevents

📖 MDN: Pointer Events · 📊 caniuse: pointer

Browser support

API	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	iOS Safari	Baseline
PointerEvent	✅ 55+	✅ 12+	✅ 59+	✅ 13+	✅ 13+	Widely available

✅ supported · ◐ partial · ❌ not supported · [n] see note. Generated from MDN browser-compat-data and web-features. caniuse: PointerEvent

Example

import { isPointerEventsAvailable, onPointer, getPointerType, isPrimaryPointer } from '@rtorcato/browser-common/pointerevents'

if (isPointerEventsAvailable()) {
  const off = onPointer(canvas, 'pointerdown', (e) => {
    if (getPointerType(e) === 'pen' && isPrimaryPointer(e)) draw(e.clientX, e.clientY)
  })
  off()
}

Exports

• isPointerEventsAvailable() — feature check
• onPointer(element, type, handler, options?) — subscribes to a pointer event, returns an unsubscribe function
• getPointerType(event) — input device type: 'mouse' | 'pen' | 'touch' | ''
• isPrimaryPointer(event) — true if the event is the primary pointer of its type

See the API reference for full signatures.