Introduction

Calculates and visualises differences between textual files. Uses teh popular JSDifflib. Outputs either as HTML or plain text in Github style.

Examples

To calculate deltas for two files:

var a = ' a\
b\
c'

var b = ' d\
b'

HTML output

DiffView.compare(a, b)

for side by side configuration outputs:

| | Old text | | New text | | ---- | -------- | ---- | -------- | | 1 | a | 1 | d | | 2 | b | 2 | b | | 3 | c | | |

and for the inline configuration outputs

| | | Text | | ---- | ---- | -------- | | 1 | | a | | | 1 | d | | 2 | 2 | b | | 3 | | c

Textual output

console.log(DiffViewSimple.compare(a, b));

outputs

- (1,) a
+ (,1) d
- (3,) c

To see the more examples and options please see the original documentation