ui.js
A small but powerful library for both the browser and node.js that takes standardised JSON input and converts to HTML making it very easy to create web pages without HTML coding.
Originally written to support the node-red-contrib-uibuilder package for Node-RED, this is now made available as a standalone library for use in any project.
It rationalises the MANY quirks and inconsistencies of DOM handling but still stays close to standard HTML terminology so that learning the simple configuration data style used by the library will also help build better HTML knowledge and skills should you desire it. However, only a minimal understanding of HTML is needed.
Distribution versions are provided both for the browser (in both IIFE and ESM formats) and for Node.js (in both CommonJS and ESM formats).
To facilitate the Node.js builds, the window object must be passed to the class on instantiation. For Node.js, the window object must be provided by loading the jsdom library.
Two other optional functions may be passed to the class. One for custom logging and the other for doing syntax highlighting of JSON. If not provided, dummy functions are used that produce no output. For the custom logging function, it must be a function that returns a function; this is required to enable the log to reference the true source location of the log output instead of the location of the log function itself.