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JavaScript2013–2020
caolan / pithy

pithy

An internal DSL for generating HTML in JavaScript

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
433GitHub stars
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What it is

An internal DSL for generating HTML in JavaScript

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HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-04-03 14:32:21 UTC to 2020-05-11 16:50:42 UTC.

012013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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An interesting native approach; there have been library-based approaches to this that date back a while. Laconic (https://github.com/joestelmach/laconic) is one of the oldest that I'm aware of, and suffers from some jsquery-ness: $.el.div({'class' : 'example'}, $.el.div('content')); Pithy (https://github.com/caolan/pithy) is another; uses function syntax to get the effect of the tag name. This was discussed previously on hn, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486239 html.div('#main', [ html.h1(null, 'Hello, world!'), html.img({src: 'foo.jpg'}) ]); In that discussion, there are various other implementations of similar ideas - https://github.com/markgandolfo/el.js and https://github.com/insin/DOMBuilder and https://github.com/jed/domo and so on. el.js came to my attention a long time ago, and I ended up
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writing a clone that I have used in my personal projects since the library almost writes itself once you steal the basic idea. Using function application is the easiest way to get the effect of TFA's syntax without the cumbersome overloading of braces.
In What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?

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