unpack-element

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unpack-element

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unpack an element's children based on markers

Example

Take a dom element and unpack it into it's children based on their markers

<div>
    <ul data-marker="list">
    </ul>
    <span data-marker="foo"></span>
</div>
var unpack = require("unpack-element")
 
var elements = unpack(thatDiv)
elements.root // that div
elements.list // that ul
elements.foo // that span

Example with root markers

If you have server side generated DOM your page may be generated with multiple templates which each use unpack-element to extract their nodes. Ideally your top call to unpack-element won't recursively unpack every sub template as you only care about the top layer.

<body>
    <div data-rootmarker="thingList">
        <ul data-marker="list">
        </ul>
        <span data-marker="foo"></span>
    </div>
    <div data-rootmarker="otherList">
        <ol data-marker="list">
        </ol>
        <span data-marker="bar"></span>
    </div>
</body>
var unpack = require("unpack-element")
 
var elements = unpack(document.body)
elements.thingList // that div
elements.otherList // that other div
elements.root // document.body
 
var childElems = unpack(elements.thingList)
childElems.root // that div
childElems.list // that ul
childElems.foo // that span

When unpack reaches a data-rootmarker instead of a data-marker it will store that elem on the returned object with the marker but not recurse into it's children.

This strategy also works well for lists of sub elements where you want to only to fetch the root element of each sub template

<div>
    <ul data-marker="list">
        <li data-rootmarker="listItems.1">
            <span>Item 1</span>
            <button data-marker="remove">X</button>
        </li>
        <li data-rootmarker="listItems.2">
            <span>Item 2</span>
            <button data-marker="remove">X</button>
        </li>
    </ul>
    <span data-marker="foo"></span>
</div>
var unpack = require("unpack-element")
 
var elements = unpack(thatDiv)
elements.list // that ul
elements.foo // that span
elements.listItems /* {
    1: thatFirstLi,
    2: thatSecondLi
*/
 
var firstSubTemplate = unpack(elements.listItems.1)
firstSubTemplate.remove // that button

This style of using data-rootmarker allows you to unpack an entirely pre-rendered tree of templates and sub templates without having to worry about name collisions

Example with array syntax

<div>
    <button class="foo" data-marker="buttons[]"></button>
    <button class="bar" data-marker="buttons[]"></button>
</div>
var unpack = require("unpack-element")
 
var elements = unpack(thatDiv)
 
elements.buttons // [button.foo, button.bar]

You can use [] syntax to mark that element as being part of an array. This means that the property on the return object will always be an array even if there is only one element with the buttons[] data-marker

Example with class mapping

<div>
    <ul class="apples-list">
    </ul>
    <span class="apple-foo"></span>
</div>
var unpack = require("unpack-element")
 
var elements = unpack(thatDiv, {
    list: "apples-list",
    foo: "apple-foo"
})
elements.root // that div
elements.list // that ul
elements.foo // that span

Installation

npm install unpack-element

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  • Raynos

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