Supertag

create self contained, reusable web components

Supertag is a light weight library to create self contained, reusable Web Components.

Features

• Standards Based: Supertag uses latest features of web platform such as Custom Elements and Shadow DOM and combines them with fast and efficient vDOM rendering based on Superfine.

• Lightweight: < 2 kb min & gzipped - extremely light weight solution for creating self contained, reusable Web Components

• Fast - Supertag enables async rendering at next micro-task timing. Multiple calls to render are automatically batched for blazing fast view updates.

Motivation

We believe, that the emerging Web Components standard has reached a level where truly reusable component can now become a reality. Browser support for Custom Elements & Shadow DOM is comprehensive and Framework support for Web Components is at par.

See Custom Elements Everywhere - a fantastic initiative by Rob Dodson which tracks support for many popular frameworks.

However, the ergonomics around vanilla web components are too low level and often inconvenient, which is where Supertag plays a role. Primary focus for Supertag is to make authoring and shipping web components as painless as possible while still staying true to its minimalism promise.

Installation

Grab a copy from CDN:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/supertag"></script>

Or install it from NPM:

npm i supertag

and use it with module bundlers like webpack or parcel as you normally would.

Usage

Our first example is a component that can increment and decrement a counter

import { Component, h } from 'supertag';

class HelloCounter extends Component {
	get count() {
		return Number(this.getAttribute('count') || 0);
	}
	set count(value) {
		this.setAttribute('count', String(value));
	}
	static get observedAttributes() {
		return ['count'];
	}
	render() {
		return (
			<div>
				<h1>{this.count}</h1>
				<button onclick={() => this.count--}>-</button>
				<button onclick={() => this.count++}>+</button>
				<button onclick={() => (this.count = this.count + 10)}>+10</button>
			</div>
		);
	}
}

Every time a count changes, we create a virtual DOM representation as described by render method. We then diff it against an existing virtual DOM representation and patch the real DOM using efficient diff and patch algorithm.

Contributing

Scaffolded using tslib-cli.

Run yarn or npm install in root folder to setup your project.

Available Commands:

yarn build # builds the package
yarn test # run tests for the package
yarn coverage # run tests and generate coverage reports
yarn pub # publish to NPM
yarn format # prettier format
yarn lint # lint pkg files
yarn setup # clean setup

License

MIT License @ osdevisnot