Preload plugin

Plugin adds preload functionality. Firstly, any link element found in DOM with the [data-swup-preload] attribute is automatically preloaded. Swup also tries to speed up the process of loading by starting the preload on hover over the link. In case one request is already running for preload from hover, swup won’t start another request, to prevent unnecessary overloading of server.

Installation

This plugin can be installed with npm

npm install @swup/preload-plugin

and included with import

import SwupPreloadPlugin from '@swup/preload-plugin';

or included from the dist folder

<script src="./dist/SwupPreloadPlugin.js"></script>

Usage

To run this plugin, include an instance in the swup options.

const swup = new Swup({
  plugins: [new SwupPreloadPlugin()]
});

Changes of swup instance

Plugin adds two methods to the swup instance - preloadPage and preloadPages.
preloadPage accepts URL path and returns a promise describing loading of the page.
preloadPages scans DOM for links with [data-swup-preload] attribute and calls preloadPage for each URL.

Plugin also adds pagePreloaded and hoverLink events to swup, that can be listened to with on method.