Show HN: gridster.js, a drag-and-drop grid plugin that actually works

That's the use case: being able to arrange/sort a set of widgets by dragging and dropping them in an grid. Puzzles, dashboards, image collections, think of any thing built of visuals elements where order counts.

We built it because jQuery sortables were limiting us to use separate columns, which couldn't handle "wide" (more than 1 column in width) elements.

Sorry for the wrong link, we fix it right now!

Will have a look at what can be done, thanks :)

We've started by building something to fulfill our needs, and responsiveness wasn't in the list for a first version.

Some logic is ran on browser resize, but the grid itself is not resized.

We'd love to add it to future releases!

Have a look at the serialize() API method, as well as the serialize_params options attribute.

It's what we use at Ducksboard to let users arrange widgets in their dashboards.

We'd like to allow different strategies in the feature, we just started by the one we needed.

The only current integration of the tool is Ducksboard, where we use it to handle widgets arrangement.

The documentation is pretty extensive anyway, it should be easy to integrate anywhere.