create-element

This simple js file helps you create html elements, and makes that process less cumbersome and a bit easier to read.

Index

• Why create-element
• Documentation
• How to use

Why create-element?

This is an opinionated piece of javascript, but it lets you create and stack html elements in an easier way - compared to vanilla at least. Take a look at some comparisons below:

Without create-element

let p = document.createElement('p');
p.classList.add('class1', 'class2');
p.setAttribute('attr1', 'value1');
p.setAttribute('attr2', 'value2');
p.textContent = 'some text';

document.body.appendChild(p);

• The appending is at the end, which breaks the logic train of thought (hierarchy-wise)
• The way to assign information changes depending on the information itself - you don't change the classes the same way you change the content, etc
• Not particularly hard to read, but not that easy.

Using create-element

document.body.appendChild(create({
    type: 'p',
    class: ['class1', 'class2'],
    attr: [
        ['attr1', 'value1'],
        ['attr2', 'value2']
    ],
    text: 'some text'
}))

• The appending is at the beggining
• the info is indented, helps with visualizing hierachy
• every thing is the same - type, class, attributes, etc follow the same logic

Using create-element more

Here's an example of a hierachy tree in HTML

<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-4">Book A</div>
        <div class="col-4">Book B</div>
        <div class="col-4">Book C</div>
    </div>
</div>

And here's how to build it with create-element

let arrayOfBooks = ['Book A', 'Book B', 'Book C']

parent.appendChild(create({
    class: ['container'],
    child: create({
        class: ['row'],
        child: Array.from(arrayOfBooks, book => {
            return create({
                class: ['col-4'],
                text: book
            })
        })
    })
}))

Notice how easy it is to build nested structures like this! All while being easy to understand the logic and hierarchy.

Documentation

There's nothing here...

How to use

Via CDN

Paste this at the bottom of the body tag of your document.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/alexandre97costa/create-element/utilities.min.js"></script>

npm when?

I might be a bit too dumb to understand how to upload a package to npm.