domdom
The proactive web front-end framework for the unprofessional
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Deno
Facts - not highlights, just facts:
- Alternative to React + Redux or Vue + Vuex
- Written in TypeScript
- No virtual dom
- Support for Deno (without jspm or pika)
- Nothing reactive - totally unreactive - fundamentally different from React
- One global observable state
- Support for re-usable components (with partition of global state)
- No local state
- TSX/JSX return pure elements
- Close to DOM
Deno
domdom has full support for Deno!
See https://github.com/eirikb/domdom-deno and https://deno.land/x/domdom .
Getting started
Install:
npm i @eirikb/domdom
Basics
Hello, world!
run.sh:
npx parcel index.html
index.html:
<body>
<script type="module" src="app.tsx"></script>
</body>
app.tsx:
import domdom from '@eirikb/domdom';
const { React, init } = domdom({});
const view = <div>Hello, world!</div>;
init(document.body, view);
Output:
TSX tags are pure elements
All elements created with tsx are elements which can be instantly referenced.
app.tsx:
const element = <span>Hello, world :)</span>;
element.style.color = 'red';
Output:
Domponents
By creating a function you create a Domponent (component).
app.tsx:
const Button = () => <button>I am button!</button>;
const view = (
<div>
<Button />
</div>
);
Output:
Domponents with options
It's possible to pass in children, and get a callback when a domponent is mounted (in DOM).
All attributes are passed in first argument.
app.tsx:
const Button = ({ color }: { color: string }, { mounted, children }: Opts) => {
const button = <button>Hello {children}</button>;
mounted(() => (button.style.color = color));
return button;
};
const view = (
<div>
<Button color="blue">World!</Button>
</div>
);
Output:
Events
All attributes starting with 'on' are added to addEventListener on the element.
app.tsx:
const view = (
<button
onClick={(event: Event) => {
event.target.style.color = 'red';
}}
>
Click me!
</button>
);
Output:
State
State handling in domdom is simple: No local state, only one huge global state.
Setting data directly on the data
object can update DOM directly in combination with don
Listen for changes
app.tsx:
interface Data {
hello: string;
}
const { React, init, don, path } = domdom<Data>({
hello: 'World!',
});
const view = <span>{don(path().hello)}</span>;
Output:
Listen for changes in arrays / objects
app.tsx:
interface User {
name: string;
}
interface Data {
users: User[];
}
const { React, init, don, path } = domdom<Data>({
users: [{ name: 'Hello' }, { name: 'World' }],
});
const view = (
<ul>
{don(path().users.$).map(user => (
<li>{user.name}</li>
))}
</ul>
);
Output:
Listen for changes in sub-listeners
app.tsx:
interface User {
name: string;
}
interface Data {
users: User[];
}
const { React, init, don, data, path } = domdom<Data>({
users: [{ name: 'Hello' }, { name: 'World' }, { name: 'Yup' }],
});
const view = (
<div>
<ul>
{don(path().users.$).map(user => (
<li>{don(path(user).name)}</li>
))}
</ul>
<button onClick={() => (data.users[1].name = '🤷')}>Click me!</button>
</div>
);
Output:
Update state
app.tsx:
interface Data {
hello: string;
}
const { React, init, don, path, data } = domdom<Data>({
hello: 'World!',
});
const view = (
<div>
<div>A: Hello, {data.hello}</div>
<div>B: Hello, {don(path().hello)}</div>
<div>
<button onClick={() => (data.hello = 'there!')}>Click me!</button>
</div>
</div>
);
Output:
Data in attributes
app.tsx:
interface Data {
toggle: boolean;
}
const { React, init, don, path, data } = domdom<Data>({
toggle: false,
});
const view = (
<div>
<button onClick={() => (data.toggle = !data.toggle)}>Toggle</button>
<button disabled={don(path().toggle)}>A</button>
<button disabled={don(path().toggle).map(res => !res)}>B</button>
</div>
);
Output:
Automatic binding
app.tsx:
interface Data {
hello: string;
}
const { React, init, don, path } = domdom<Data>({
hello: 'World!',
});
const view = (
<div>
<div>Hello, {don(path().hello)}</div>
<div>
<input type="text" bind="hello" />
</div>
</div>
);
Output:
Pathifier
Aggregate data.
Supports:
And in addition accompanying "on" version, making it possible to listen for an external path:
mapOn
sortOn
sliceOn
filterOn
app.tsx:
interface User {
name: string;
}
interface Data {
users: User[];
}
const { React, init, don, path } = domdom<Data>({
users: [{ name: 'Yup' }, { name: 'World' }, { name: 'Hello' }],
});
const view = (
<ul>
{don(path().users.$)
.filter(user => user.name !== 'World')
.sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name))
.map(user => (
<li>{user.name}</li>
))}
</ul>
);
Output:
Recipies
How to handle common tasks with domdom
Routing
app.tsx:
import domdom from '@eirikb/domdom';
type Route = 'panel-a' | 'panel-b';
interface Data {
route: Route;
}
const { React, init, don, path, data } = domdom<Data>({ route: 'panel-a' });
const PanelA = () => (
<div>
Panel A :) <button onclick={() => gotoRoute('panel-b')}>Next panel</button>
</div>
);
const PanelB = () => <div>Panel B! (hash is: {window.location.hash})</div>;
const view = (
<div>
{don(path().route).map((route: Route) => {
switch (route) {
case 'panel-b':
return <PanelB />;
default:
return <PanelA />;
}
})}
</div>
);
function gotoRoute(route: Route) {
window.location.hash = route;
}
window.addEventListener(
'hashchange',
() => (data.route = window.location.hash.slice(1) as Route)
);
init(document.body, view);
Output:
Structure
This is how I would suggest putting domdom in its own file for importing.
app.tsx:
import { data, don, init, path, React } from './domdom';
const view = <div>Hello, {don(path().hello)}</div>;
data.hello = 'There :)';
init(document.body, view);
domdom.ts:
import domdom from '@eirikb/domdom';
export interface Data {
hello: string;
}
const dd = domdom<Data>({ hello: 'world' });
export const React = dd.React;
export const init = dd.init;
export const data = dd.data;
export const don = dd.don;
export const path = dd.path;
Output:
Animation (garbage collection)
At writing moment domdom doesn't have any unmount callback.
I'm not a big fan of destructors, unmounted, dispose or similar.
This might seem silly, and it might not be obvious how to use say setInterval, without this preventing the element from ever being cleaned up by garbage collector.
This is how I would suggest putting domdom in its own file for importing.
app.tsx:
import domdom from '@eirikb/domdom';
interface Data {
run: boolean;
tick: number;
}
const { React, init, don, path, data } = domdom<Data>({
run: false,
tick: 0,
});
const view = (
<div>
<img
src="https://i.imgur.com/rsD0RUq.jpg"
style={don(path().tick).map(tick => ({ rotate: `${tick % 180}deg` }))}
/>
<button onClick={() => (data.run = !data.run)}>Start/Stop</button>
</div>
);
(function loop(time) {
if (data.run) {
data.tick = time;
}
requestAnimationFrame(loop);
})(0);
init(document.body, view);