@motorcycle/dom

Standard DOM Driver for Motorcycle.js

A Driver for Motorcycle.js built to interact with the DOM.

DEPRECATED! Please use the newer Motorcycle.js

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npm install --save @motorcycle/dom

Polyfills

Internally this driver makes direct use of ES2015 Map, if you plan to support browser that do not natively support these features a polyfill will need to be used.

API

• makeDomDriver
• mockDomSource
• h
• hasCssSelector
• API Wrappers

makeDomDriver(container, options)

A factory for the DOM driver function.

Takes a container to define the target on the existing DOM which this driver will operate on, and an options object as the second argument. The input to this driver is a stream of virtual DOM objects, or in other words, "VNode" objects. The output of this driver is a "DomSource": a collection of streams queried with the methods select() and events().

DomSource.select(selector) returns a new DomSource with scope restricted to the element(s) that matches the CSS selector given.

DomSource.events(eventType, options) returns a stream of events of eventType happening on the elements that match the current DOMSource. The event object contains the ownerTarget property that behaves exactly like currentTarget. The reason for this is that some browsers doesn't allow currentTarget property to be mutated, hence a new property is created. The returned stream is a most.js Stream. The options parameter can have the property useCapture, which is by default false, except it is true for event types that do not bubble. Read more here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/addEventListener about the useCapture and its purpose.

DomSource.elements() returns a stream of the DOM elements matched by the selectors in the DOMSource. Also, DomSource.select(':root').elements() returns a stream of DOM element corresponding to the root (or container) of the app on the DOM.

Arguments:

• container: HTMLElement the DOM selector for the element (or the element itself) to contain the rendering of the VTrees.
• options: DomDriverOptions an object with two optional properties:
  • modules: array overrides @motorcycle/dom's default virtual-dom modules as as defined in src/modules.

Return:

(Function) the DOM driver function. The function expects a stream of VNode as input, and outputs the DOMSource object.

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mockDomSource(mockConfig)

A factory function to create mocked DOMSource objects, for testing purposes.

Takes a mockConfig object as arguments, and returns a DOMSource that can be given to any Motorcycle.js app that expects a DOMSource in the sources, for testing.

The mockConfig parameter is an object specifying selectors, eventTypes and their streams. Example:

const domSource = mockDomSource({
  '.foo': {
    'click': most.of({target: {}}),
    'mouseover': most.of({target: {}}),
  },
  '.bar': {
    'scroll': most.of({target: {}}),
    elements: most.of({tagName: 'div'}),
  }
});

// Usage
const click$ = domSource.select('.foo').events('click');
const element$ = domSource.select('.bar').elements();

The mocked DOM Source supports isolation. It has the functions isolateSink and isolateSource attached to it, and performs simple isolation using classNames. isolateSink with scope foo will append the class ___foo to the stream of virtual DOM nodes, and isolateSource with scope foo will perform a conventional mockedDomSource.select('.__foo') call.

Arguments:

• mockConfig: Object an object where keys are selector strings and values are objects. Those nested objects have eventType strings as keys and values are streams you created.

Return:

(Object) fake DOM source object, with an API containing select() and events() and elements() which can be used just like the DOM Driver's DOMSource.

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h()

The hyperscript function h() is a function to create virtual DOM objects, also known as VNodes. Call

h('div.myClass', {style: {color: 'red'}}, [])

to create a VNode that represents a DIV element with className myClass, styled with red color, and no children because the [] array was passed. The API is h(tagOrSelector, optionalData, optionalChildrenOrText).

However, usually you should use "hyperscript helpers", which are shortcut functions based on hyperscript. There is one hyperscript helper function for each DOM tagName, such as h1(), h2(), div(), span(), label(), input(). For instance, the previous example could have been written as:

div('.myClass', {style: {color: 'red'}}, [])

There are also SVG helper functions, which apply the appropriate SVG namespace to the resulting elements. svg() function creates the top-most SVG element, and svg.g, svg.polygon, svg.circle, svg.path are for SVG-specific child elements. Example:

svg({width: 150, height: 150}, [
  svg.polygon({
    attrs: {
      class: 'triangle',
      points: '20 0 20 150 150 20'
    }
  })
])

hasCssSelector(cssSelector: string, vNode: VNode): boolean

Given a CSS selector without spaces, this function does not search children, it will return true if the given CSS selector matches that of the VNode and false if it does not. If a CSS selector with spaces is given it will throw an error.

import { hasCssSelector, div } from '@motorcycle/dom';

console.log(hasCssSelector('.foo', div('.foo'))) // true
console.log(hasCssSelector('.bar', div('.foo'))) // false
console.log(hasCssSelector('div', div('.foo'))) // true
console.log(hasCssSelector('#foo', div('#foo'))) // true
console.log(hasCssSelector('.foo .bar'), div('.foo.bar')) // ERROR!

API Wrappers

elements(domSource: DomSource): Stream<Element>

A functional implementation for DomSource.elements().

events(eventType: string, domSource: DomSource): Stream<Event>

A functional implementation for DomSource.events(eventType). This function is curried by default.

query(cssSelector: string, domSource: DomSource): DomSource

A functional implementation for DomSource.select(cssSelector). This function is curried by default.

The name of this function is query and not select because it is a name conflict with the hyperscript helper function for the SELECT HTML element.

useCapture(domSource: DomSource): DomSource

Combined with events, this allows for an equivalent of DomSource.events(eventType, { useCapture: true }).

import { events, useCapture } from '@motorcycle/dom'

const event$ = events('click', useCapture(sources.dom));

Types

DomSource

export interface DomSource {
  select(selector: string): DomSource;
  elements<T extends Element>(): Stream<Array<T>>;

  events<T extends Event>(eventType: StandardEvents, options?: EventsFnOptions): Stream<T>;
  events<T extends Event>(eventType: string, options?: EventsFnOptions): Stream<T>;

  namespace(): Array<string>;
  isolateSource(source: DomSource, scope: string): DomSource;
  isolateSink(sink: Stream<VNode>, scope: string): Stream<VNode>;
}