Attributes Kit helps you with rendering MSON

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Attributes Kit

Attributes Kit is a (as the name suggest) kit which helps you with rendering MSON (plain-text, human and machine readable, description format for describing data structures).

For instance—it turns the following...

- id: 1
- name: A green door
- price: 12.50
- tags: home, green

...into this.

Preview

This application has been deployed to Heroku, try it out at attributes-kit.herokuapp.com.

Getting Started

  1. Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:apiaryio/attributes-kit.git
  1. Install dependencies
cd ./attributes-kit
npm install
  1. Run it
npm start

You can go to localhost:8080 to try out the Playground, or to /examples.html to see the list of examples.

  1. You're done! :+1:

If you would like to use it in your application, please see the Usage section.

Usage

Browser

  1. Install the package
npm install attributes-kit
  1. Require the package
ES6
import AttributesKit from 'attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit';
ES5
var AttributesKit = require('attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit');
  1. Use it

Use the Attributes Kit, you can see the API.

<script> tag

If you prefer to drop a <script> tag in your page, here's how to do it. Just a note—all builds do support UMD (AMD and CommonJS) out of the box.

  1. Choose the build
Download the latest release
Go to the [Releases](https://github.com/apiaryio/attributes-kit/releases) page and download the latest release, or you can download all the builds directly below.
Development Build
attributes-kit.js; attributes-kit.js.map
Works out of the box, the uncompressed file is best used during development or debugging. attributes-kit.js.map is not required to run the Kit.
Production Build
attributes-kit.min.js
Works out of the box, compressed version saves bandwidth and improves performance in production.
Use CDN
Development Build
https://npmcdn.com/attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit.js
Production Build
https://npmcdn.com/attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit.min.js
  1. Drop the <script> tag
<script src="./attributes-kit.js"></script>
  1. Use it
var AttributesKit = window.AttributesKit;
AttributesKit.render(refractElement, element, options);

Please see the API.

Advanced

There are two more builds mainly for more advanced use cases.

Build without React
attributes-kit-no-react.js; attributes-kit-no-react.js.map
This build does not contain React dependency. You have to install React manually, or your application lists React in its dependencies (in package.json).
Build without dependencies
attributes-kit-no-deps.js; attributes-kit-no-deps.js.map
This build does not contain any dependencies of the Attributes Kit. You have to install all dependencies manually, or your application lists them all in (e.g.) package.json.

Server

You can use the Attributes Kit on the server too. For instance—you can generate HTML on the server and send the markup down on the initial request for faster page loads and to allow search engines to crawl you pages for SEO purposes.

  1. Install the package
npm install attributes-kit
  1. Require the package

Please mind the dist/attributes-kit-server suffix.

ES6
import AttributesKit from 'attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit-server';
ES5
var AttributesKit = require('attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit-server');
  1. Use it
import React from 'react';
import ReactDomServer from 'react-dom/server'
import {Attributes} from 'attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit-server';

const element = React.createElement(Attributes, {
  element: [Refract Element]
});

ReactDomServer.renderToString(element);

API

render Method

import AttributesKit from 'attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit';

AttributesKit.render(refractElement, element, options);

Class Instance

import AttributesKit from 'attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit';

let attributes = new AttributesKit({element, options});
attributes.render(refractElement);

React Component

import ReactDom from 'react-dom';
import {Attributes} from 'attributes-kit/dist/attributes-kit';

ReactDom.render(<Attributes element={refractElement} />, element);

Parameters

Attributes Kit always takes the same parameters.

Parameter Description
refractElement Refract element to be rendered.
element A DOM node or a CSS selector; Attributes Kit will be rendered inside the element.
options An options object to customize the rendering.
options.dataStructures If set, these data structures will be used to dereference the refractElement being rendered. It should be a js array of refract elements.

Developing

Installation

  1. Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:apiaryio/attributes-kit.git
  1. Install dependencies
cd ./attributes-kit
npm install
  1. Run it
npm start

Congratulations! You are all set to start developing now! :rocket:

Compatibility

Package Version
React 0.14+
React DOM 0.14+
Node 6.11.1
NPM 3.8.x

Browsers

Browser Version
Google Chrome 15+
Safari 6.1+
Firefox 28+
Edge 12+
IE 11+
Opera 12.1+

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