HTML-AU

HTML-AU is inspired by HTMX. Instead of rendering HTML on the server like HTMX, HTML-AU uses client side JavaScript native customElements to generate html.

Uses the fundamentals of get and post to pass data between attributes and components or attributes and the server.

  <button au-trigger='click' au-ced='post hello-msg' au-target="main" au-swap='innerHTML' name='msg' value='Hello World'>Show Message</button>
  // before click
  <main></main>
  // after click
  <main><hello-msg>Hello World</hello-msg></main>

Post to the SERVER first, to translate the message, then post to the component to render on the page

 <button au-trigger='click' au-server='post ./api/translate/german' au-ced='post hello-msg' au-target="main" au-swap='innerHTML' name='msg' value='Hello World'>Show Message</button>
 // before click
 <main></main>
 // after click
 <main><hello-msg>Hallo Welt</hello-msg></main>

Unlike HTMX, HTML-AU does not try to conform to HATEOAS

Install

npm i html-au

Project Technical Summary

HTML-AU is an attribute based 'reactive' (really re-rendering) framework for web components. Inspired by HTMX. HTML-AU renders html on the client using the ES6 customElement specification. HTMX renders html on the server.

CED Component Element Description

CED explained MDN CreateElement for web components

  <div au-ced='div?is=hello-world&msg=nice to meet you'>click</div>

Translates to

  const helloWorldCED = {
    tagName:'div',
    attributes:{
      is:'hello-world',
      msg:'nice to meet you'
    }
  }
  createElement(helloWorldCED)

Which is equivalent to

  const ele = document.createElement('div', {is: 'hello-world'} )
  ele.setAttribute('msg','nice to meet you')
  // pre connectedCallback <div is="hello-world" msg="nice to meet you"></div>
  // post connectedCallback <div is="hello-world" msg="nice to meet you">nice to meet you<div>

customElement

export class HelloWorld extends HTMLElement{
  connectedCallback(){
    this.textContent = this.getAttribute('msg')
  }
}

Example Click Counter

// simple input and button. Clicking the button updates the input value.
// the rendered live html

  <click-counter>
    <input name="counter" value="54">
    <button
        au-trigger="click"
        au-ced="click-counter"
        au-include="closest click-counter"
        // au-server="post ./api/click" // to post the data to a server, then send the results to the component
        au-target="post closest click-counter">add one</button>
  </click-counter>

Click counter custom element

html<div></div> is our template literal sanitization library that returns a document fragment

import { html } from '../../src/utils/index.js'
export const CLICK_COUNTER = 'click-counter'

export class ClickCounter extends HTMLElement {
  body: FormData;

  connectedCallback() {
    const previousCount = Number(this?.body?.get('counter') ?? 0)
    const frag = html`
      <input name='counter' value='${(previousCount + 1).toString()}' />
      <button
        au-trigger='click'
        au-ced='${CLICK_COUNTER}'
        au-include='closest ${CLICK_COUNTER}'
        au-target='post closest ${CLICK_COUNTER}'>click me</button>
    `
    this.append(frag)
  }
}