to-style

to-style is a small (9.75KB minified, 3.37KB gzipped), fast object formatter for style objects for node, the browser and react.

Installation

$ npm i @immutabl3/to-style

Usage

General usage:

import toStyle from '@immutabl3/to-style';
const result = toStyle({
  x: 1,
  opacity: 0.0019,
  margin: 1,
  padding: '1rem',
  notValidCssProp: 1,
});

console.log(result.x);
// automatically generates 3d transforms 
// > matrix3d(1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,1)
console.log(result.opacity);
// reduces precision
// > 0.002
console.log(result.margin);
// turns numbers into unit values
// > '1px'
console.log(result.padding);
// to-style won't alter strings
// > '1rem'
console.log(result.notValidCssProp);
// wont apply non-css properties to the result
// > undefined

With React:

import React from 'react';
import toStyle from '@immutabl3/to-style';

const Container = function(props) {
  return (
    // because toStyle removes invalid css properties,
    // we can store styles (e.g. opacity) flat on the
    // props object and pass it directly to "style"
    <div style={ toStyle(props) }>
      { props.children }
    </div>
  );
};

to-style is made to be used with animations and tweens. Passing an object as a second value will use that object as the result.

const coords = { x: 0, y: 0 };
const style = {};
const tween = new TWEEN.Tween(coords)
  .to({ x: 300, y: 200 }, 1000)
  .onUpdate(function() {
    const styled = toStyle(coords, style);
    console.log(style === style);
    // > true
    // do what you'd like with the style.transform 
  })
  .start();

to-style believes in staying out of your way, not doing too much and having smart defaults. Create your own custom styler by overriding the defaults (see options below):

import toStyle from '@immutabl3/to-style';

const myStyler = toStyle.create({ transform3d: false });
const result = toStyle({
  x: 1,
});

console.log(result.x);
// > translateX(1px)

Options

transform3d default: true

If any transformation properties are defined, they will be converted to a 3d matrix: x, y, z, translateX, translateY, translateZ, scale, scaleX, scaleY, scaleZ, rotate, rotateX, rotateY, rotateZ, skew, skewX, skewY.

Disabling this feature generates more verbose 2d code e.g. x => translateX(1px)

blacklist default: ['x', 'y']

An array of keys to blacklist from applying to the style object. By default, x and y are valid values in a CSSStyleDeclaration but are being used as shorthand transformation properties.

format type: {}

An object defining which formats will be applied. By default, the following keys will be formatted: opacity, top, right, bottom, left, width, height, perspective, willChange, margin, padding, size.

units type: {}

An object defining the units for formatted properties.

precision type: {}

An object defining the percision for formatted properties when defined as numbers.

Tests

Clone the repo, then:

1. npm install
2. npm test

A benchmark can also be run:

npm run benchmark

Current benchmark

basic x 2,677,036 ops/sec ±0.15% (98 runs sampled)
matrix x 2,436,562 ops/sec ±0.48% (98 runs sampled)
no-side-effects x 1,087,356 ops/sec ±0.37% (99 runs sampled)
side-effects x 1,873,759 ops/sec ±0.33% (101 runs sampled)
no-side-effects#large x 364,810 ops/sec ±0.23% (98 runs sampled)
side-effects#large x 573,287 ops/sec ±0.09% (102 runs sampled)

Notes

As a design decision, this library optimizes for runtime speed in exchange for setup cost and greater (but stable) memory consumption. All functions to format the passed object are precomposed. This generally isn't a big tradeoff as runtime speed and preventing large garbage collections are more important when dealing with animation (e.g. tweening) and re-draws (react).

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2021 Immutable, LLC

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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