Gardener DOM Toolkit

A lightweight development toolkit for declarative DOM manipulation, HTML-to-JSON parsing, and integrated hot-reloading.

Features

• Gardener: Create complex DOM structures using JSON objects.
• Parser: Convert existing HTML/DOM elements into JSON format.
• Hot Reload: Built-in dev-mode hot reloading with persistent state.
• SVG Support: Seamlessly handles SVG elements and attributes.

Installation

npm install gard

Usage

Declarative DOM

import { gardener, appendElement, fetchElement } from 'gardener-dom';

const myElement = gardener({
  t: 'div',
  cn: ['container'],
  children: [
    { t: 'h1', txt: 'Hello Gardener!' },
    { t: 'button', txt: 'Click Me', events: { click: () => alert('Clicked!') } }
  ]
});

appendElement(fetchElement('body'), myElement);

HTML to JSON Parser

import { parser } from 'gardener-dom';

const json = parser(document.querySelector('#my-element'));
console.log(json);

3. LICENSE

Using the MIT license is the standard for open-source utilities.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026

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