➿ lithent

An extensible JSX-based virtual DOM library for lightweight use in a variety of environments.

• Manual
• Korean Manual
• Home Page - (This page is written in lithent.)

Lithent were developed to make it easy to insert Virtual DOM component fragments into pages already drawn with SSR, and are intended to be used lightly in a variety of situations.

(lithent.mjs 14.25 kB │ gzip: 4.49 kB │ map: 59.74 kB) (lithent.umd.js 10.39 kB │ gzip: 4.03 kB │ map: 58.16 kB)

🚩 Table of Contents

• Thanks for the introduction
• Why Use Lithent
• Basic Guide
• How To Install
  • Use NPM
  • Use CDN
  • With JSX
  • With FTAGS
  • With HTM
• Examples
  • With ESM
  • With UMD
• Related Projects
• Develop Guide
• Test

Thanks for the introduction

• unsuckjs
• jster
• webtoolsweekly

Why use Lithent?

Lithent have the bare minimum of necessary functionality, with no unnecessary features.

In a real-world development environment, you may want to use Virtual DOM lightly, with only the bare minimum of core functionality.

"Lithent" makes it easy to add, remove, and update virtual DOM to specific parts of a pre-drawn SSR page.

"Lithent" has implemented the bare minimum functionality needed to create and update virtual DOM in general (we only need to know 'render', 'mounter', 'updater', 'renewer', 'mountCallback', and 'updateCallback').

We provide code in the form of 'helpers' that extend the basic functionality, but using the helpers is only optional and users can extend and develop custom helpers for their own projects.

Approach with the developer-friendly concept of closures between "component mounter" and "renderer"

JavaScript users are used to using closures and love to develop with them.

"Lithent" provides a familiar approach to my JavaScript development, as it leverages the properties of higher-order functions and closures to define and recycle the state of a component.

Basic Guide

• https://superlucky84.github.io/lithent/

How To Install

Use NPM

pnpm add lithent

Or Use CDN

• UMD : https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/lithent.umd.js
• UMD-HELPER: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/helper/dist/lithentHelper.umd.js
• UMD-FTAGS: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/ftags/dist/lithentFTags.umd.js
• UMD-TAG: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/tag/dist/lithentTag.umd.js
• ESM : https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/lithent.mjs
• ESM-HELPER: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/helper/dist/lithentHelper.mjs
• ESM-FTAGS: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/ftags/dist/lithentFTags.mjs
• ESM-TAG: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/tag/dist/lithentTag.mjs

It's easier to use lithent with JSX or HTM.

With JSX

• Lithent is built on top of JSX.
  • Setting Guide

With FTAGS

You don't need to use h functions or JSX, you can call functions to mark them up. When creating a component, use fMount instead of mount. When creating a fragment, use fFragment instead of Fragment.

/* ESM */
import { render, h } from 'lithent';
import { fTags, fFragment, fMount } from 'lithent/ftags';

const { section, div, p, br, strong } = fTags;

/* UMD
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/lithent.umd.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/helper/dist/lithentHelper.umd.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/ftags/dist/lithentFTags.umd.js"></script>

const { render } = lithent;
const { fTags, fMount, fFragment } = lithentFTags;
const { section, div, p, br, strong } = fTags;
*/

const fTagComponent = fMount<{ firstProp: number }>((_r, props, children) => {
  return () =>
    fFragment(
      'first inner',
      div({ style: { border: '1px solid red' } }, 'second inner'),
      div('The props argument can be omitted.'),
      props.firstProp,
      ...children
    );
});

render(
  fTagComponent(
    { firstProp: 3 }, // The props argument can be omitted.
    div({ style: { border: '1px solid green' } }, `Fchildren1`),
    'Fchildren2',
    br()
  ),
  document.getElementById('root')
);

With HTM

• Htm Github

import { lTag } from 'lithent/tag';
const destroy = render(lTag`<${Component} />`, document.getElementById('root'), document.getElementById('#insert-before-this-element'));

Examples

• More Examples

With ESM

import { h, render, mount, Fragment } from 'lithent';
import { lTag } from 'lithent/tag';
import { state } from 'lithent/helper';

const Component = mount((renew, _props) => {
  const count = state(0, renew);

  const change = () => {
    count.value += 1;
  };

  // Updater
  return () => lTag`
    <${Fragment}>
      <li>count: ${count.value}</li>
      <button onClick=${change}>increase</button>
    <//>
  `;
});

// appendChild or insertBefore
// The third argument is an optional value for insertBefore.
const destroy = render(lTag`<${Component} />`, document.getElementById('root'), document.getElementById('#insert-before-this-element'));

With UMD

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/lithent.umd.js"></script>
<!--script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/helper/dist/lithentHelper.umd.js"></script-->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/tag/dist/lithentTag.umd.js"></script>
<!--script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/ftags/dist/lithentFTags.umd.js"></script-->

<div id="root"></div>

<script>
const { h, Fragment, render, mount } = lithent;
const { lTag } = lithentTag;
// const { state } = lithentHelper;

const Component = mount(renew => {
  count = 0;

  const change = () => {
    count += 1;
    renew();
  };

  // Updater
  return () => lTag`
    <${Fragment}>
      <li>count: ${count}</li>
      <button onClick=${change}>increase</button>
    <//>
  `;
});

// appendChild or insertBefore
// The third argument is an optional value for insertBefore.
const destroy = render(lTag`<${Component} />`, document.getElementById('root'), document.getElementById('#insert-before-this-element'));
</script>

Related Projects

• htm - making Hyperscript Tagged Markup possible

Develop Guide

It's open source, so you can develop and contribute together.

pnpm install (this project was created using pnpm.)

npm install -g pnpm

project install

git clone https://github.com/superlucky84/lithent.git

cd lithent

pnpm install

project build

pnpm build

Running the development environment

pnpm dev // or pnpm dev:core

Test

To fully test everything, including plugins like helper and ftags, a build is required.

pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm test