@swim/ui

@swim/ui implements a user interface toolkit for pervasively real-time applications. A unified view hierarchy, with builtin procedural styling and animation, makes it easy for @swim/ui components to uniformly style, animate, and render mixed HTML, SVG, Canvas, and WebGL components. @swim/ui is a part of the @swim/toolkit framework.

Framework

The @swim/ui umbrella package depends on, and re-exports, the following component libraries:

• @swim/model (npm, doc) – lifecycle-managed model hierarchy supporting dynamic scoping and service injection.
• @swim/style (npm, doc) – Font, color, gradient, shadow and related types and parsers.
• @swim/theme (npm, doc) – semantic looks and feels for mood-aware UX components.
• @swim/view (npm, doc) – unified HTML, SVG, and Canvas view hierarchy, with integrated controller architecture, animated procedural styling, and constraint-based layouts.
• @swim/dom (npm, doc) – HTML and SVG views, with procedural attribute and style animators.
• @swim/graphics (npm, doc) – canvas graphics views, with procedurally animated shapes, and procedurally styled typesetters.
• @swim/component (npm, doc) – componentized controller layer with application lifecycle and service management.

@swim/ui builds on the @swim/core framework; it has no additional dependencies.

Installation

npm

For an npm-managed project, npm install @swim/ui to make it a dependency. TypeScript sources will be installed into node_modules/@swim/ui/main. Transpiled JavaScript and TypeScript definition files install into node_modules/@swim/ui/lib/main. And a pre-built UMD script, which bundles all @swim/ui component libraries, can be found in node_modules/@swim/ui/dist/main/swim-ui.js.

Browser

Browser applications can load swim-ui.js, along with its swim-core.js dependency, from the SwimOS CDN.

<!-- Development -->
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-core.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-ui.js"></script>

<!-- Production -->
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-core.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-ui.min.js"></script>

Alternatively, the swim-toolkit.js script may be loaded, along with its swim-system.js dependency, from the SwimOS CDN. The swim-toolkit.js script bundles @swim/ui together with all other @swim/toolkit frameworks.

<!-- Development -->
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-system.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-toolkit.js"></script>

<!-- Production -->
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-system.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.swimos.org/js/latest/swim-toolkit.min.js"></script>

Usage

ES6/TypeScript

@swim/ui can be imported as an ES6 module from TypeScript and other ES6-compatible environments. All component libraries are re-exported by the umbrella @swim/ui module.

import * as swim from "@swim/ui";

CommonJS

@swim/ui can also be used with CommonJS-compatible module systems. All component libraries are re-exported by the umbrella @swim/ui module.

var swim = require("@swim/ui");

Browser

When loaded by a web browser, the swim-ui.js script adds all component library exports to the global swim namespace. The swim-ui.js script requires that swim-core.js has already been loaded.

The swim-toolkit.js script also adds all @swim/ui component library exports to the global swim namespace, making it a drop-in replacement for swim-ui.js when additional @swim/toolkit frameworks are needed.