dnd-manager: Lightweight Drag and Drop for Vanilla JS

dnd-manager: a vanilla JavaScript library for data-driven drag-and-drop that works with any framework.

Key features:

• Callback-based API: reads positions and item data from HTML data attributes
• Supports vanilla JS, React, and any other framework
• Includes a DragPreviewController that clones the dragged element and tracks the cursor
• Multiple manager instances for cross-container drag operations
• Dynamic canDrag support for per-item permission control at pointer-down time
• Uses Pointer Events API (touch, mouse, and pen)

👉 Blog Post

👉 GitHub Repo

👉 Live Demo