vanillah v1.0.7
vanillaH
If you love JSX you don't necessarily need a JS framework like React. You can provide a h() function yourself and use Vanilla JS.
Essentially, all vanillaH provides is a h() function that creates DOM nodes using document.createElement, Element.setAttribute, Element.appendChild and document.createTextNode.
An example using JSX is on Codepen.
This is essentially what vanillaH does. I don't know how useful it is to you. Maybe not. ☺️
Getting started
vanillaH is available via NPM:
npm i vanillahThe vanillaH npm package provides a factory function where you pass in a document object (DOM API).
It returns a h() function which can be used with JSX.
import vanillaH from 'vanillah';
const h = vanillaH(document);
const snippet = <h1>Hello World</h1>
document.body.appendChild(snippet);Usage with esbuild
You can provide the jsx factory via esbuild.
Usage on Codepen
On Codepen, you can enable this by
choosing "Babel" as preprocessor and adding a directive to use h() as a jsx factory:
/* @jsx h */
import vanillaH from 'https://unpkg.com/vanillah?module';
const h = vanillaH(document);
const stuff = <h1>Hello World</h1>;
document.body.appendChild(stuff);Yeeting the transpile step
You can also use vanillaH without transpile step:
h('div', {className: 'wrapper'},
h('h1', null, 'Hello World')
);This may be a bit cumbersome. But there's a library which allows you to use template strings, called htm.
import vanillaH from 'https://unpkg.com/vanillah?module';
import htm from 'https://unpkg.com/htm?module';
const h = vanillaH(document);
const html = htm.bind(h);
const stuff = html`
<div>
<div className="headline-wrapper">
<h1 id="hello-world">Hello World</h1>
<a href="#hello-world">
<span aria-hidden="true">#</span>
</a>
</div>
<a href="https://lea.codes" aria-labelledby="hello-world" target="_blank">Hello world</a>
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit, amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Aperiam dolorem
aspernatur saepe asperiores autem, rem architecto eos fugit officia sed.
Soluta corrupti, facere iure quae accusamus velit consequuntur magni quia!
</p>
</div>
`;
document.body.appendChild(stuff);Usage on the server-side
You can use vanillaH on the server-side by using linkedom.
import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom';
import htm from 'htm';
import vanillaH from 'vanillah';
const {
window, document
} = parseHTML(`
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Hello SSR</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
`);
const h = vanillaH(document);
const html = htm.bind(h);
document.body.appendChild(html`<h1>Hello World</h1>`);
console.log(document.toString());