HtmlHelpers

Some handy helpers to create/maintain HTML pages.

The helper contains

• A JQuery alike library to manage HTML elements (create, handle, modify, style, remove)
• A small string templating library
• A small library to create multiline regular expressions with comments
• A library to manage ES Date (format, locale sensitive/aware, calculation etc.)
• A logger factory to print text/html in a structured way to the browser screen

Examples

Use in Stackblitz front end project

import {logFactory /*, ...[see 'exposed as']*/}
  from "https://unpkg.com/htmlhelpers@latest/Bundle/htmlhelpers.min.js";

Install the package

npm install dynamic-html-helpers

Install the bundled code to a custom folder

This will install the bundled code files to a folder of choice.

npm run installBundleTo "[path to install to]"

Prerequisites

• nodejs must be installed.
• [path to install to] must be a valid path string (e.g. d:/webstuff/mysite/script). If the folder doesn't exist it will be created.

Use as standalone script

<script src="https://unpkg.com/htmlhelpers@latest/Bundle/sbhelpers.script.min.js"></script>
<script>
  const {logFactory, $ /*, ...[see 'exposed as']*/} = /*[window.]*/HTMLHelpers;
  // ...
</script>

The library includes the following packets:

• jqx-es: a JQuery alike DOM manipulation module.
  • Exposed as $
• jsregexhelper: a small library to create readable ECMAScript regular expressions (multiline, commenting possible)
  • Exposed as regexhelper
• ticktock-es: a module to fiddle extensively with ECMAScript Dates
  • Exposed as $D
• splat-es: a string templating module
  • Exposed as splatModule ({interpolate, interpolateClear, addSymbolicStringExtensions})

For printing/logging to screen

• logFactory: logfactory logs string(s) to screen within a formatted unordered listing (<ul>). It exposes 2 methods

  • log([string1],[string2] ... [stringX])

    print the parameter strings.

    Note: inserting !! in a parameter string (e.g. !!<div>some text</div>) will print it as a header (no list item style).

  • logTop: same as log, but the string(s) will be prependend (inserted on top op the existing logged lines).

Automatic style creation

The SBHelpers library supplies a default (css-)style for Stackblitz Ecmascript projects. Style may be edited dynamically using $.editCssRules (see examples).

Note

The repository is maintained @codeberg.org.

The code base @codeberg.org is therefore authorative.

The codeberg code is kept in sync with the Github HTMLHelpers repository.