doremifa
v1.0.20
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Reactive DOM library based on template literals
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Doremifa
Reactive view library based on tagged template literals. It is special compared to other similar libraries in that it implements it's own XHTML/HTML parser.
The main features are
- Reactive template literals where only changed parts are re-rendered
- Event handler support
- SVG support
- Has reactive global state, which can be used (not mandatory)
- Router baked in (or you can use your own)
A simple TypeScript example
import * as Doremifa from 'doremifa'
const html = Doremifa.html;
const setState = Doremifa.setState
Doremifa.setState({
time:(new Date).toTimeString(),
})
Doremifa.mount(document.body, state => html`<div>Hello World! ${state.time}</div>`)
setInterval( _ => { setState({time:(new Date).toTimeString()})},1000)
Hello World in CodePen Router Example in CodePen
Usage and Install
npm i doremifa
And then
import { mount, router, getState, setState, html, drmfComponent, drmfTemplate } from 'doremifa';
// or
import * as Doremifa from './index';
html -literal
To construct a Template you can write JavaScript template literal
html`<div>${"Hello World"}</div>`
Doremifa.mount
Mount render function to some element
Doremifa.mount(document.body, state => html`<div>Hello World!</div>`)
Functions
Any function which returns drmfTemplate
can be used as a component
function message(txt) {
return html`<div>${txt}</div>`
}
const example = html`<div>${message(txt)}</div>`
Objects
Objects which implement render()
-function and inherit from drmfComponent
can be used as part of templates.
class Hello extends drmfComponent {
render() {
return html`<div>Hello World </div>`
}
}
const obj = new Hello(); // create and re-use if needed
Doremifa.mount(document.body, state => html`<div>${obj}</div>`)
Attributes can be set by value without quotes
const style='color:blue;'
html`<div style=${style}/>`
Events
Event handlers get two params:
e
the HTML eventtpl
thedrmfTemplate
-object which can old ID or list values
html`<button onclick=${(e, tpl) => {
// tpl holds the template object
}}>Click me!</button>`
References
References are collected from templates to two colletions:
ids
holds elements having "id" attribute setlist
holds elements havinglist="something"
set
The are also available to event handlers.
html`<div>
<input id="name" />
<div list="divs" />
<div list="divs" />
<button onclick=${(e, tpl) => {
alert(tpl.ids.name) // value of input
alert(tpl.list.divs.length) // 2
}}>Click me!</button>
</div>`
Event after template is assigned
Sometimes you want to manipulate DOM after the template has been rendered
html`<div></div>`.onReady( tpl => {
// tpl.ids
// tpl.list
})
Custom Tags?
There are no custom tags, just functions or objects.
State and rendering
The application has a global state which is accessed using
getState()
setState({...})
When state is updated, rendering is triggered and all parts of the application are processed. This should be extremely fast, since templates are cached and only changed parts are updated.
Promises inside View?
No. Promises are not part of view tree. Just update state and view changes reactively.
Doremifa.router
Build -in router router uses window.location.hash
and acceptse links in format
<a href="#page1/param1/value1/param2/value2">Link to page 1</a>
<a href="#page2/param1/value1/param2/value2">Link to page 2</a>
Then you can define router anywhere in templates like
html`<div>
${Doremifa.router({
page1 : (state) => html`page1`,
page2 : (state) => html`page2`,
})
</div>`
The router component gets the state
having following variables set
{
"page": "page2",
"params": {
param1 : value1,
param2 : value2
}
}
Other Similar libraries
- hyperHTML
- lit-html
- YallaJS
Tutorials on similar subjects
- https://www.twilio.com/blog/2018/05/building-a-chat-with-twilio-lit-html-parcel-and-typescript.html
- https://itnext.io/a-tiny-disastrous-ecmascript-change-fadc05c83e69
License
MIT.