Uniform
Uniform is a way of organising your front-end CoffeeScript. You describe individual components of your application as Uniform classes. They can be used for delegating events, describing behaviour and handle the building of elements.
For example a contact form could have AJAX behaviour described as a Uniform class.
# Let's describe a contact form# The HTML template: built """<form><textarea></textarea><button>Send</button></form>"""# We cache some children to properties on this object:add'msg''textarea'add'btn''button'# We delegate the submit event to @sendResponse():# attach submit event to @eladd 'submit'epreventDefault@send_response# Do the sending :): ->@btntext'Sending...'$post 'index.html'msg: @msg=>@msgval''@btntext'Send'# InitialisejQuery ->form =$'body'appendformel
You can also use your view models on elements already in the DOM like so:
# Or use on an existing elementjQuery -> el: $'#contact'
CoffeeScript in the browser?
Uniform is best used in compiled CoffeeScript browser environments. Since Uniform is a CoffeeScript class it is easiest to extend and use it if your front end code is also CoffeeScript.
Use it how you like though.
Features
- Can build it's own element using a template
- Can hook onto existing elements in the DOM instead of using a previously defined template
- Can delegate events of child elements and directly attach events to itself
- Can cache jQuery objects so that you don't have to
- Can be used with AMD or simply included in your HTML
Getting a copy
You can simply use the JS found in the dist
folder of the
Uniform git repo https://github.com/DrPheltRight/uniform.
Hacking
Clone the repository https://github.com/DrPheltRight/uniform.git and then run "cake build" to make a fresh copy of Uniform.
Future developments
-
v0.5.x will see the introduction of a JS interface for Uniform. A current example can be found in: https://github.com/DrPheltRight/uniform/blob/develop/examples/js-example/todo.js
-
Since we have added the add() syntax for events we can now remove the need for a blank string to indicate placing the listening directly on @el. The only thing that would break is the object syntax which as of v0.5.x is deprecated and will be remove in v0.6.x. So as of v0.6.x I will:
- remove the object syntax from events and elements
- remove the blank string syntax to put it in line with jQuery's use of a blank string (match all elements)
License
MIT
Author
Luke Morton