basic-dom

A minimal JS view library for dynamic pages

Where tinyDOM aimed to be a slim version of jQuery, basic-dom is targetting the JS view library market. basic-dom lets you safely create dynamic html content from arbitrary input in a similar way to React and Vue, but does so in a much more straight forward way

Installation

bower install basic-dom

Usage

Add the following into your html page to add a button that logs 'hello' when pressed

<script src="path/to/bower_components/basic-dom/basicdom.js"></script>
<script>
  var myButton = el(
    'button', 
    { onClick: function(){ console.log('hello') } }, 
    ['Click me!']
  )
  document.body.appendChild(foo)
</script>

Interface

basic-dom adds the following to the window object:

• $(selector: string): HTMLElement

  • Grabs a single element that matches the given selector

• $$(selector: string): Array<HTMLElement>

  • Grabs an array of HTML elements based on the given selector

• el(tagName: string, attributes: ?object, children?: Array<string | HTMLElement>): HTMLElement

  • Construct the element specified by tagName
  • Attach any attributes passed to attributes
    • camelCased values are turned into kebab-cased values (caveat: myAttr becomes my-attr but myATTR stays as myATTR)
    • any on{event} values are registered as event listeners for {event}
    • passing a style property will merge the given styles into the element#style property instead of setting the style attribute
  • Append all children passed to children either directly, in the case of HTMLElements or after turning them into TextNodes in the case of strings

• bdom

  • An object containing the following utility methods included with basic-dom

• bdom#resolve(el: string | HTMLElement): HTMLElement

  • Resolve el to an element using $ if it is a string

• bdom#empty(el: string | HTMLElement): void

  • resolves el
  • removes all child elements from el

• bdom#fill(el: string | HTMLElement, children: Array<string | HTMLElement>)

  • resolves el
  • Empties el
  • Appends all elements of children to el, either as is (HTMLElement) or as a TextNode (string)