uniform

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Uniform

Uniform is a way of organising your front-end CoffeeScript. You describe individual components of your application as Uniform classes. They can be used for delegating events, describing behaviour and handle the building of elements.

For example a contact form could have AJAX behaviour described as a Uniform class.

# Let's describe a contact form 
class ContactForm extends Uniform
    
  # The HTML template 
  template: (built) -> built """
    <form>
      <textarea></textarea>
      <button>Send</button>
    </form>
  """
 
  # We cache some children to properties on this object 
  elements: (add) ->
    add('msg''textarea')
    add('btn''button')
  
  # We delegate the submit event to @sendResponse() 
  events: (add) ->
    # attach submit event to @el 
    add 'submit'(el, e) ->
      e.preventDefault()
      @send_response()
 
  # Do the sending :) 
  send_response: ->
    @btn.text('Sending...')
    $.post 'index.html'msg: @msg=>
      @msg.val('')
      @btn.text('Send')
 
# Initialise 
jQuery ->
  form = new ContactForm
  $('body').append(form.el)

You can also use your view models on elements already in the DOM like so:

# Or use on an existing element 
jQuery -> new ContactForm(el: $('#contact'))

CoffeeScript in the browser?

Uniform is best used in compiled CoffeeScript browser environments. Since Uniform is a CoffeeScript class it is easiest to extend and use it if your front end code is also CoffeeScript.

Use it how you like though.

Features

  • Can build it's own element using a template
  • Can hook onto existing elements in the DOM instead of using a previously defined template
  • Can delegate events of child elements and directly attach events to itself
  • Can cache jQuery objects so that you don't have to
  • Can be used with AMD or simply included in your HTML

Getting a copy

You can simply use the JS found in the dist folder of the Uniform git repo https://github.com/DrPheltRight/uniform.

Hacking

Clone the repository https://github.com/DrPheltRight/uniform.git and then run "cake build" to make a fresh copy of Uniform.

Future developments

  • v0.5.x will see the introduction of a JS interface for Uniform. A current example can be found in: https://github.com/DrPheltRight/uniform/blob/develop/examples/js-example/todo.js

  • Since we have added the add() syntax for events we can now remove the need for a blank string to indicate placing the listening directly on @el. The only thing that would break is the object syntax which as of v0.5.x is deprecated and will be remove in v0.6.x. So as of v0.6.x I will:

    • remove the object syntax from events and elements
    • remove the blank string syntax to put it in line with jQuery's use of a blank string (match all elements)

License

MIT

Author

Luke Morton

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