Why SwipeCalendar?

The idea for SwipeCalendar was born in 2018, when I was working on a web application that required a javascript event calendar. FullCalendar was the most flexible and customizable JavaScript calendar available, so I used it. Happily, at first.

Some of my customers who used the application primarily on their mobile devices complained that the calendar was a bit cumbersome in that context. Specifically, having to click a button to navigate to the next or previous view seemed like poor use of a touchscreen. I agreed, and looked for a way to enable swiping from one view to another.

FullCalendar doesn’t offer that feature. So I built it myself.

After some trial and error and a lot of hard work, I fully integrated FullCalendar with iDangero.us’ Swiper plugin and rolled the result into my application’s latest update.

Customers loved the new functionality and wondered why they didn’t see it in every web application. Which seemed like a good question to me. SwipeCalendar is my answer.

I created SwipeCalendar as an easy, transparent way for any developer or SAAS owner to add swipe functionality to an existing FullCalendar implementation. SwipeCalendar is a JavaScript plugin wrapper for FullCalendar that offers the same exact API and can be initialized with just a few lines of code.

We put a lot of passion and effort into our web applications. That passion only comes through if the UX is just right. SwipeCalendar helps us all take a step towards that goal.