Ragtag

No-Frills Templating

Ragtag cleans up template literals, making sure false, null, undefined, and commas don't stink up your content.

Install

npm install ragtag

Usage

Map

import html from 'ragtag'
const people = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Carol']

const output = html`
  <h3>Door list:</h3>
  <ul>
    ${people.map(person => `<li>${person}</li>`)}
  </ul>`

<h3>Door list:</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Alice</li>
  <li>Bob</li>
  <li>Carol</li>
</ul>

Ternary

import html from 'ragtag'
const people = ['Alice', 'Bob', 'Carol', 'Dave', 'Eddy', 'Frank', 'George']

const output = html`
  <p>
    This party ${people.length < 6 ? 'sucks.' : 'is ok.'}
  </p>`

<p>This party is ok.</p>

And operator

Falsey

import html from 'ragtag'
const isFun = false

const output = html`<div>${isFun && '<p>Has friends</p>'}</div>`

<div></div>

Truthy

import html from 'ragtag'
const people = [
  'Alice',
  'Bob',
  'Carol',
  'Dave',
  'Eddy',
  'Frank',
  'George',
  'Henry',
  'Isaac',
  'John',
  'Kimberly',
  'Lucy'
]

const output = html`
  <div>
    ${people.length > 10 && '<p>Party time!</p>'}
  </div>`

<div>
  <p>Party time!</p>
</div>

Composable template functions

import html from 'ragtag'

interface Wine {
  name: string
  varietal: string
  region?: string
  vintage?: number
}

const wines: Wine[] = [
  {
    name: 'Stadt Krems',
    varietal: 'Grüner Veltliner',
    region: 'Kremstal'
  },
  {
    name: 'Terrassen Federspiel',
    varietal: 'Grüner Veltliner',
    vintage: 2016
  }
]

const wineListItem = ({ name, varietal, region, vintage }: Wine) => html`
<li>
  <h2>${name}</h2>
  <small>
    ${varietal}${region && ` - ${region}`}${vintage && ` - ${vintage}`}
  </small>
</li>`

const wineList = (wines: Wine[]) => html`
<ul>
  ${wines.map(wine => wineListItem(wine))}
</ul>`

const template = (wines: Wine[]) => html`
<div>
  <h1>Wine List</h1>
  ${wines.length > 0 ? wineList(wines) : '<p>Sold Out!</p>'}
</div>`

const output = template(wines)

<div>
  <h1>Wine List</h1>
  <ul>
    <li>
      <h2>Stadt Krems</h2>
      <small>Grüner Veltliner - Kremstal</small>
    </li>
    <li>
      <h2>Terrassen Federspiel</h2>
      <small>Grüner Veltliner - 2016</small>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>