metaflux

Simplifying the flux/redux pattern for vanilla (es6) javascript

Metaflux is a lightweight library that provides a store to your application.

Getting Started

Installation:

npm install @rebelstack-io/metaflux

Usage:

Step 1 (Require/Import).

const { Store } = require('@rebelstack-io/metaflux');

Or when import is enabled:

import { Store } from '@rebelstack-io/metaflux';

Or with CDN

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@rebelstack-io/metaflux@2/dist/metaflux.min.js"></script>

Step 2 (Initialize).

const storage = new Store(
	{Counter: 1},
	{INCREMENT: (action, state) => {
		state.Counter = state.Counter + 1;
		return {newState: state};
	}
});

Step 3 (Dispatch actions).

The Store object is also an event emitter, when an action is dispatched an event is emitted.

storage.dispatch({
	type: 'INCREMENT'
});

Step 4 (Listen for changes).

storage.on('INCREMENT', action => {
	// GET THE UPDATED VALUE
	const newValue = storage.getState().Counter;
	// UPDATE DOM.
});

MetaComponents

MetaComponents are WebComponents that support Metaflux's storage.

Usage

import { MetaComponent, Div, H1 } from '@rebelstack-io/metaflux';

class MyComponent extends MetaComponent {
	render () {
		// See Custom Elements
		this.content = Div().Div().H1({}, 'Hello World').baseNode();
		return this.content;
	}
}

window.customElements.define('my-component', MyComponent);

Bind MetaComponents to Metaflux Storage

Althought Storage is an event emitter by itself it is more organize to use Metaflux's handleStoreEvents method to bind itself to the actions dispatched.

import { MetaComponent, Store } from '@rebelstack-io/metaflux';

const storage = new Store(
	{Counter: 1},
	{INCREMENT: (action, state) => {
		state.Counter = state.Counter + 1;
		return {newState: state};
	}
});

class MyComponent extends MetaComponent {
	// Pass storage to MetaComponent parent
	constructor () {
		super(storage);
	}
	render () {
		const content = Div().Button({
				onclick: () => {
					// Dispatch Increment action when button is clicked.
					this.storage.dispatch({type: 'INCREMENT'});
				}
		}, 'Increase').baseNode()
		// Here we get the initial state of Counter and assign it to the counter element.
		this.text = content.Div({}, this.storage.getState().Main.value)
		return content;
	}
	// Handle Metaflux Storage events
	handleStoreEvents () {
		return {
			'INCREMENT': action => {
				// When INCREMENT action is dispatch we update the counter element
				this.text.textContent = this.storage.getState().Counter;
			}
		}
	}
}

window.customElements.define('my-component', MyComponent);

Using MetaComponent inside a MetaContainer

A MetaContainer is a webcomponent with a render method that works like the MetaComponent's render method but instead you're not supposed to bind it to the storage, it doesn't have a handleStoreEvents method in order to avoid that, you can however put MetaComponents inside it.

This object was tought like a not complex element where developers can import stylesheets and organize their layout.

import { MetaContainer } from '@rebelstack-io/metaflux';
import '../components/my-component'; // Here we import our previously defined MetaComponent.

class MyContainer extends MetaContainer {
	render () {
		return `
			<h2>Simple Counter</h2>
			<my-component></my-component>
		`;
	}
}

window.customElements.define('my-container', MyContainer);

The MetaContainer is also a good place to declare global variables like the storage.

Custom Elements

The custom elements are instances of HTMLElement which means that we have all the prototypes such as querySelector or innerText. In addition, we created an easy way to use it as you been doing in vanilla Javascript but with a better element constructor.

Chaining

Every Custom element can be chain with other elements or it self, Notice that it will return the last element in the chain. We can also obtain the parent of the chain using baseNode method

const span = Div().Div().Span(false, 'Hello world');
const base = span.baseNode();

• the constant span:

<span>Hello world</span>

• the constant base:

<div>
	<div>
		<span>Hello world</span>
	</div>
</div>

Parameters

All the custom elements recive 2 non-mandatory parameters (props, content).

• props is an object where you can define basic propperties such as onclick, className, id ... you name it, if exits the property for HTMLElement can be set in that object, also we have custom props as classList which you can pass an array of classes.
• content can be a String, HTMLElement, Array containing any of the previous, function returnin any of the previous and Object

Examples:

• props

Div({
	id: 'element',
	classList: ['class-1', 'class-2'],
	onclick: (ev) => {
		// Logic
	},
	...
})

• content

// as a string
Select(false, `
	<option>option Default</option>
	<option>option 1</option>
	<option>option 2</option>
`);

// as HTMLElement
Select(false, Option(false, 'default'));

// as an array
Select(false, [
	Option({},'option Default'),
	Option({onclick: () => { console.log('option 1') }},'option 1'),
	Option({onclick: () => { console.log('option 2') }},'option 2')
])

// as a function
Select(false, () => {
	return ['1', '2'].map(_n => {
		return Option(
			{ onclick: () => { console.log(`option ${_n}`) } },
			`option ${_n}`
		)
	})
})

Handle Store events

with the custom element there are two ways to listen to store events:

• onStoreEvent method (notice that all HTMLElement this method in their prototype):

Div()
.Button({attributes: { disabled: '' }}, 'click me')
.onStoreEvenet('LOADING_FINISH', (state, element) => {
	// element is the Button who is listening the event
	element.removeAttribute('disabled')
})

• events property in the Object content (notice that here you can listen to as many events as you want)

Div({}, {
	content: Div().Div().H1({}, 'Hello world').baseNode(),
	events: {
		'EVENT_NAME': (action, state) => { /* logic */ },
		'OTHER_EVENT': (action, state) => { /* logic */ }
	}
});

More Examples

Form({}, () => (
    [
        Label({}, 'Email'),
        Input({type:'email', placeholder:'example@dom'}),
        Label({}, 'Password'),
        Input({type:'password', placeholder:'Password'}),
        Button({id: 'btn-from'}, 'Login')
    ]
));

<form>
  <label>Email</label>
  <input type="email" placeholder="example@dom">
  <label>Password</label>
  <input type="password" placeholder="Password">
  <button id="btn-from">Login</button>
</form>

A({href: '#metaflux'}, 'Click me');

<a href="#metaflux">Click me</a>

Complete List of elements helpers:

• 'H1',
• 'H2',
• 'H3',
• 'H4',
• 'H5',
• 'H6',
• 'Div',
• 'Span',
• 'Ol',
• 'Ul',
• 'Li',
• 'Table',
• 'Thead',
• 'Tbody',
• 'Tfoot',
• 'Tr',
• 'Td',
• 'Th',
• 'Form',
• 'Label',
• 'Input',
• 'TextArea',
• 'Button',
• 'Img',
• 'Picture',
• 'Source',
• 'Select',
• 'Option',
• 'P',
• 'A',
• 'Section',
• 'Video'

Can i create a custom tag with the custom elements?

• Yes you can, all the custom elements are a child of one central function HTMLElementCreator which receive the tagName and their props, the content of the element if wants to define needs to be as a property of the props parameter:

const myElement = HTMLElementCreator('my-element', {
	content: <'String' | Element() | function () {} | Array()>
})