maik.h

HTML templating without the render loop.

maik started as a fork of hyperHTML but quickly dissolved. It has support for Rx.Observables as a new native 'primitive', and provides tag functions like html and svg just like lit-html does. In contrast to lit-html, html and svg are lazy.

Import it

Just play with it using true ESM modules:

<script type="module">
  import { bind } from 'https://unpkg.com/maik.h@latest/default-maik.js'

  let render = bind(document.body)
  render`<div>Hi, how are you?</div>`
</script>

Or, old-school:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/maik@latest/default-maik-bundle.js"></script>
<script>
  let { bind } = maik

  let render = bind(document.body)
  render`<div>Hi, how are you?</div>`
</script>

Basic Example

The API is really, really thin, so we just start off with another example.

// Assume Rx and maik are **globally** available
let { bind, html } = maik

let clock = Rx.Observable.interval(1000).map(() =>
  new Date().toLocaleTimeString()
)

// `html` partials are lazy, they don't do anything until you attach them.
// That basically means, the clock is not ticking right now.
let greeting = html`<h1>Hello, world!</h1>`
let theTime = html`<h2>It is ${clock}.</h2>`

let render = bind(document.body)
// We call `render` once, and the clock is ticking
render`
  <div>
    ${greeting}
    ${theTime}
  </div>
`

Install it

npm install maik.h

like you always do and import it directly:

<script type="module">
  import { bind, html } from 'node_modules/maik.h/default-maik.js'
</script>

Features

• Maximally 3.8KB (minzipped).
• Uses ESM modules.
• Direct, native DOM manipulation. No VDOM.
• No framework, just a lib.
• Efficient for list of items. keyed lists builtin.
• If you opt-in to use Rx, you can avoid building around a render loop.