hill - creates an HTML fragment from a JSON object

This creates an HTML fragment from a JSON object.

A node is a JavaScript object with these keys:

• tag: the html tag, such as input
• children: The children. Either an array or an object. The values can either be a string or another node. A string will be escaped.
• text: Text to go inside the node, that will be escaped. If there are other children it will be appended to it.
• order: The order of the children, if children is an object. An array of keys. Any that exist here but not in children will be omitted. Any that exist in children but not here will be after the keys specified here.
• className: the class attribute. It's given this alias because class is a reserved name in JavaScript
• htmlFor: the for attribute, useful for labels. It's given this alias
• attrs: html attributes. this can contain keys that have a special meaning for nodes (the above and attrs itself). This is an object.
• other keys: Anything that isn't reserved, as above, is an attribute. See the example below.

Hill escapes the HTML, but as it is in early development, one should take care when using user input to build the object. The author built this to use with tools like angular and Vue.js which operate on the HTML.

The attribute values are treated differently depending on their type:

• null adds a bare attribute, like data-foo in <hr data-foo>
• true adds a bare attribute, like checked in <input type="checkbox" name="foo" checked>
• false omits the attribute

Usage

var hill = require('hill')
var node = {
  tag: 'div',
  children: {
    input: {
      tag: 'input',
      type: 'text',
      name: 'name',
      id: 'name'
    },
    label: {
      tag: 'label',
      'for': 'name',
      text: 'Name: '
    }
  },
  order: ['label', 'input']
}
var html = hill(node)
console.log(html)

License

MIT