WC-Upgrader

WC-Upgrader is a JS Utility that 'upgrades' elements to the specified custom element when they are defined.

1. Basic Header: This is just an h1 element
2. Flash Header: This is using the custom element directly. There is just a text node until the custom element is defined so it renders with no styles or semantic meaning.
3. Basic Header Upgraded (Delay): This is an h1 element that gets upgraded to the custom element when it is defined in the browser. In the demo there is a setTimeout to demonstrate how it is less disruptive to upgrade an element rather than have a text node to start.

Installation

npm install wc-upgrader

Usage

import wcUpgrader from 'node_modules/wc-upgrader/wc-upgrader.mjs'
 
const Upgrader = new wcUpgrader();
 
Upgrader.upgradeOnDefined('custom-element', 'CSSSelector');

*Technically speaking, this just makes a new element and moves the children from the old tree under it. You could use this to change an arbitrary element into another one and retain it's children.

**The custom element does not need to be defined immediately but it will need to be at some point or there will just be a hanging async task

Demo

To try the demo file yourself do the following steps.

1. Clone the Repo
2. Run npm install to get the sample web component Flashy-Header
3. Use something like Live Server to view demo.html (wc-upgrader is a module so you'll get a CORS error if you don't)

Contributing

Feedback and pull requests are welcome! Please open issues so we can discuss any feature ideas or bugs found.

License

MIT