Umbrella JS
Library Documentation
Covers your javascript needs for those rainy days. A <3kb performant jquery-like library born from the question: You might not need jquery, then what do you need?
You probably need awesome CSS (like Picnic CSS) and a lightweight, modern and performant javascript library. This does:
- DOM tranversal (selector, filter, find, each, etc)
- DOM editing (classes & attributes, html, before, etc)
- Event handling
- Ajax
A simple example:
u("button").on('click', function(){
alert("Hello world");
});
u('form.login').ajax(function(err, res){
window.href = '/user/' + res.id;
});
Getting started
There are few ways to use Umbrella JS:
Play with it
Instead of installing it, you can just play with it in JSFiddle:
Try on JSFiddle
Use a CDN
JSDelivr is an awesome service that hosts many open source projects so you don't need to even download the code:
JSDelivr CDN
Use bower
Bower is a front-end package manager that makes it super-easy to add a new package:
bower install umbrella
Module support
If you use a front-end module bundler like Webpack or Browserify, u
and ajax
are exposed as CommonJS exports. You can pull them in like so:
var u = require('path/to/umbrella').u;
// or ES-style modules
import { u } from 'path/to/umbrella';
Download it
If you like it or prefer to try it locally, just download umbrella.min.js
:
Download Umbrella JS
Add it to your project:
<script src="umbrella.min.js"></script>
Up for grabs
For beginners in Javascript or contributing to an Open Source project, there are few issues that are made on purpose so you can help out. Check them out:
Up For Grabs issues
Support: IE11+
Current usage for IE 10- is under 1% for each version (8, 9, 10) so it's not Umbrella's mission to support this. However, those extra seconds gained from loading faster on mobile might be even bigger than that percentage. You should probably test it.
Known, wontfix IE10- bugs:
Alternatives
Author and License
Created and maintained by Francisco Presencia under the MIT license.