careml

Easy DSL to create HTML in CoffeeScript

CARE Markup Language is an elegant DOM DSL built using ES6 proxies and CoffeeScript classes. Provides a slightly more OO approach to DOM generation than the likes of HyperScript or JSX.

class Page extends Builder then tag: 'div', id: 'page', children: ->
  @div['#header'] ->
    @h1.classy 'h', style: { 'background-color': '#22f' }
  @div.wow['#menu'].amaze style: { 'background-color': '#2f2' }
  @ul ->
    @li 'one'
    @li 'two'
    @li 'three'
  @h2 'content title', style: { 'background-color': '#f22' }
  @p '''
  lots of content inside here using
  triple-quote strings
  '''
  @p '''
  the intention is to use this over JSX or
  interpolated strings. Your html will be
  guaranteed valid since it is generated with
  DOM api and it is implemented with a neat DSL
  that fully utilizes the `@` operator
  '''

Installation

npm install careml

or

yarn install careml

Usage

import Builder from 'careml'

class MyElement extends Builder
  tag: 'section'
  class: ['mine', 'main']
  children: ->
    # Here is where you use the DSL
    @article ->
      @p 'Content here'
      @p 'More content'

This class has several shortcuts for making HTML elements but the real heart of it is the DSL inside the children function.

DSL

To build HTML, you provide the tag name as a field of this or @ in CoffeeScript e.g.:

@div

This creates a <div></div> element utilizing the DOM createElement method.

You can provide arguments to this just like HyperScript:

@h1 'My Amazing Blog'
@h3 'by Yours Truly', style: { 'font-size': '20px' }

<h1>My Amazing Blog</h1>
<h3 style="font-size:60px;">by Yours Truly</h3>

Other attributes

Attributes can be added like the style element above and they can be interwoven with other children.

@a href: '#', 'Click here!'