Matreshka v0.2

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Matreshka - is the small and powerful client-side Javascript framework that allows you to build your applications a new way. The main advantages of Matreshka are:

• Data-DOM bindings
• Firing events when data changes
• Improved data types (Matreshka.Array and Matreshka.Object)

Forget that you have an UI, because it changes automatically when the data changes!

Getting started

Plug in Matreshka to your app

More info about how to attach Matreshka to your page you can find on documentation

<script src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="js/matreshka.min.js"></script>

Matreshka (main class) using

var mk = new MK;

mk.bindElement( 'myKey', '.my-element' ); // you just bound element to your key "myKey"

mk.on( 'change:myKey', function() {
	alert( 'yeah' );
});

mk.myKey = 5; // changes DOM element (".my-element") and alerts "yeah"

Matreshka.Object (inherits Matreshka) using

var mkObject = new MK.Object({
	a: 3,
	b: 4
});

mkObject.bindElement({
	a: '.a-element',
	b: '.b-element'
});

mkObject.on( 'modify', function() {
	alert( 'yeah' );
});

mkObject.a = 5; // changes DOM element (".a-element") and alerts "yeah"

console.log( mkObject.toJSON() ); // logs { a:5, b:4 }

Matreshka.Array (inherits Matreshka) using

mkArray = new MK.Array( 1, 2, 3, 4 );

mkArray.on( 'push', function() {
	alert( 'yeah' );
});

mkArray.push( 5 ); // adds 5 to the end of given array and alerts "yeah"

console.log( mkArray.toString() ); // logs "1,2,3,4,5"

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More live examples

Documentation

Known issues in Internet Explorer 8

• .toString method doesn't work (fixable)
• MK.Object: for..in cycle works buggy because of restriction of Object.defineProperty in IE8. Use .each method instead

Known issues because of Internet Explorer 8

These bugs will be fixed in Matreshka v1.0 when IE8 support will be removed

MK.Array: Standard iterators (.forEeach, .map, .some) takes native array as third callback's element. For example

var array = new MK.Array( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );
array.forEach( function( item, index, self ) {
	alert( array === self ); // false
});

Release History

Todo

• MK.Object#renderer method (overrides MK.Array#itemRenderer)
• Lazy initialization. No need to run .initMK method
• v1.0 - Screw Internet Explorer 8. IE8 Support Ends April 8, 2014.
• CSS selectors for DOM events

   this.on( 'click::something(.x > .y)' )

• Allow to render regular objects using MK.Array#itemRenderer
• Own template engine
• Remove MK.Array itemrender event, it will be replaced by @render

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Author: Andrey Gubanov a@odessite.com.ua

License: MIT License

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