ringabout / starlight

Another front-end framework in Nim (working in progress)

starlight

Another front-end framework in Nim (working in progress). It directly compiles to the DOM and uses Proxy to implement reactivity.

Reactivity

type
  Card = ref object
    id: int
  Counter = ref object
    num: int
    card: Card

var x = reactive Counter(num: 0) # = x := Counter(num: 0)
watch:
  console.log "run: ", x.?num

console.log "here: ", effectsTable

watch:
  console.log "run2: ", x.?num

# use `.?` to access the attributes of Reactive
x.?num += 1
x.?num = 182

x <- Counter(num: 1) # reassign; complete replacement
x.?num += 1

var y = reactive Counter(card: Card(id: 16))
watch:
  console.log "card: ", y.?card.id

y.?card.id += 1

y <- Counter(card: Card(id: -1)) 

primitives

proc createDom(): Element =
  var count = reactive(0)
  buildHtml(`div`):
    text count
    button(onClick = (e: Event) => (count += 1)): text "Count"

setRenderer createDom

ref object

type
  Counter = ref object
    c: int

proc createDom(): Element =
  var count = reactive(Counter(c: 12))
  buildHtml(`div`):
    text count.?c
    button(onClick = (e: Event) => (count.?c += 1)): text "Count"

setRenderer createDom