any-elements v2.0.4

Any Elements

Lightweight component library built to enable custom elements-like features and API for any selectors you desire.

Features

• Class-based components.
• Automatic upgrading of existing and dynamically added elements.
• Ability to target elements with any valid CSS selector.
• Support for connected, disconnected, and attributeChanged lifecycle hooks.
• Automatic cleanup of registered event listeners using attachEvent method.
• Lazy loading of components just when they are needed.
• Distributed in multiple formats including CJS, UMD & ESM
• Less then 1KB minified and gzipped.

Installation

npm install --save any-elements

Usage

Registering a component

import { Registry, Component } from "any-elements";

class MyComponent extends Component {}

Registry.define("my-component", MyComponent, { selector: ".my-component" });

Lifecycle methods

import { Registry, Component } from "any-elements";

class MyComponent extends Component {
  connected() {
    console.log("I appeared on the page!");
  }
  disconnected() {
    console.log("I got removed from the page!");
  }
}

Registry.define("my-component", MyComponent, { selector: ".my-component" });

Listening for attribute changes

import { Registry, Component } from "any-elements";

class MyComponent extends Component {
  observedAttributes() {
    return ["baz"];
  }
  attributeChanged(name, oldValue, newValue) {
    console.log('Attribute "baz" has changed.');
  }
}

Registry.define("my-component", MyComponent, { selector: ".my-component" });

Attaching event listeners

import { Registry, Component } from "any-elements";

class MyComponent extends Component {
  connected() {
    this.attachEvent("click", function() {
      console.log("My element was clicked!");
    });
  }
}

Registry.define("my-component", MyComponent, { selector: ".my-component" });