# Skooma ```js import {html} from "skooma.js" ``` A functional-friendly helper library for procedural DOM generation and templating. ## Overview ```js const text = new State({value: "Skooma is cool"}) setTimeout(() => {text.value = "Skooma is awesome!"}, 1e5) document.body.append(html.div( html.h1("Hello, World!"), html.p(text, {class: "amazing"}), html.button("Show Proof", {click: event => { alert("It's true!") }}) )) ``` ## Interface / Examples ### Basic DOM generation Accessing the `html` proxy with any string key returns a new node generator function: ```js html.div("Hello, World!") ``` Attributes can be set by passing objects to the generator: ```js html.div("Big Text", {style: "font-size: 1.4em"}) ``` Complex structures can easily achieved by nesting generator functions: ```js html.div( html.p( html.b("Bold Text") ) ) ``` For convenience, arrays assigned as attributes will be joined with spaces: ```js html.a({class: ["button", "important"]}) ``` Assigning a function as an attribute will instead attach it as an event listener: ```js html.button("Click me!", {click: event => { alert("You clicked the button.") }}) ``` Generators can be called with many arguments. Arrays get iterated recursively as if they were part of a flat argument list. ### Generating Text Nodes ```js text("Hello, World") // Wraps document.createTextNode text() // Defaults to empty string instead of erroring text(null) // Non-string arguments still error text`Hello, World!` // returns a new document fragment containing the text node "Hello, World!" text`Hello, ${user}!` // returns a document fragment containing 3 nodes: // "Hello, ", the interpolated value of `user` and "!" text`Hello, ${html.b(user)}!` // Text node for Hello, the tag with the user's name, and a text node for ! ``` ## handle ```js import {handle} from 'skooma.js' ``` Since it is common for event handlers to call `preventDefault()`, skooma provides a helper function called `handle` with the following definition: ```js fn => event => { event.preventDefault(); return fn(event) } ``` ## A few more examples: Create a Button that deletes itself: ```js document.body.append( html.button("Delete Me", {click: event => event.target.remove()}) ) ``` Turn a two-dimensional array into an HTML table: ```js const table = rows => html.table(html.tbody(rows.map( row => html.tr(row.map( cell => html.rd(cell, {dataset: { content: cell.toLowerCase(), }}) )) ))) ``` A list that you can add items to ```js let list, input = "" document.body.append(html.div([ list=html.ul(), html.input({type: 'text', input: e => input = e.target.value}), html.button({click: event => list.append(html.li(input))}, "Add"), ])) ``` A list that you can also delete items from ```js const listItem = content => html.li( html.span(content), " ", html.a("[remove]", { click: event => event.target.closest("li").remove(), style: { cursor: 'pointer', color: 'red' }, }) ) let list, input = "" document.body.append(html.div([ list=html.ul(), html.input({type: 'text', input: e => input = e.target.value}), html.button({click: event => list.append(listItem(input))}, "Add"), ])) ```