@codemovie/code-movie-html - Use HTML as a DSL for Code.Movie animations
Turn DOM (real DOM nodes as well as jsdom fake DOM nodes) elements into frame objects:
<div class="animation">
<pre class="frame"><code>// How to add two numbers in JS<code></pre>
<pre class="frame"><code>// How to add two numbers in JS
function add() {}</code></pre>
<pre class="frame">// How to add two numbers in JS
function add(a, b) {}</code></pre>
<pre class="frame"><code>// How to add two numbers in JS
function add(a, b) {
return a + b;
}</code></pre>
<pre class="frame"><code>// How to add two numbers in JS
function add(a, b) {
return a + b;
}
console.log(add(1, 2)); // > 3</code></pre>
</div>
<script type="module">
// Turn the contents of <code> elements nested within <pre class="frame">
// into frame objects. This is what this library is all about.
import { framesFromDom } from "@codemovie/code-movie-html";
const frameElements = document.querySelectorAll(".animation pre.frame", "code");
const frames = framesFromDom(frameElements)
// Use regular @codemovie/code-movie functionality to turn the frames into
// animation HTML and CSS
import { animateHTML } from "@codemovie/code-movie";
import ecmascript from "@codemovie/code-movie/languages/ecmascript";
const html = animateHTML(frames, { tabSize: 2, language: ecmascript() });
// Use @code-movie/code-movie-runtime to add a basic UI to the animation and
import from "@codemovie/code-movie-runtime";
const runtime = document.createElement("code-movie-runtime");
runtime.innerHTML = html;
runtime.controls = true;
runtime.keyframes = Object.keys(frames);
document.body.append(runtime);
// Hide the source elements
document.querySelector(".animation").hidden = true;
</script>Result:
For an interactive example, install this package, run npm run demo and open http://localhost:3000/demo/index.html in a non-ancient web browser.
Install this library via your favorite package manager:
npm install @codemovie/code-movie-htmlYou will almost certainly also want to install @codemovie/code-movie to turn the frames into an animation and @codemovie/code-movie-runtime might also be useful. If you want to work server-side or at compile-time, install jsdom as well.
The package exports a single function that you can point to some DOM with an optional selector to target nested elements:
function framesFromDom(containerElements: Iterable<Element>, sourceSelector?: string, windowObject?: Window & typeof globalThis): InputFrame[];Takes an iterable of elements (things like Arrays, NodeLists and the like) and turns it into an array of input frames compatible with @codemovie/code-movie. If a non-falsy value is provided for sourceSelector, the function will take its content from the first matching descendant of each source element; otherwise the source elements themselves serve as sources.
If your program's global object is not the the window object, you can pass the window object as a third argument. This is useful for work with non-browser DOM environments like JSON:
import { framesFromDom } from "@codemovie/code-movie-html";
import jsdom from "jsdom";
const dom = new jsdom.JSDOM(`<!DOCTYPE html><p>[]</p><p>[42]</p><p>[23, 42]</p>`);
const actual = framesFromDom(
// List of sources
dom.window.document.querySelectorAll("p"),
// Source selector (none; the <p> elements already contain the content)
"",
// Reference to JSDOM's window object
dom.window
);The library currently only extracts the text content from elements and their children. More advanced features are on their way.