Summary

HTML applications often require an identified element to be present and select the element with the assumption that it is present.

Type-annotation tools like TypeScript and Flow will let you know that this isn't strictly the case: if an element isn't present, then null will be returned from document.getElementById.

Refining the type of the result can be done in an if (element !== null)...else but this must be done every time in order to eliminate the possibility of null.

This package allows code to rely on a Node being present:

If given a string, it selects the element with that ID and verifies it exists before returning it.
If given a Node | null, it checks the value is a Node and:
- if it is, returns it.
- if it is null, throws an Error.

Examples

const element = relyOn("key-field", "The field must exist!");

const element = relyOn(document.querySelector(".identifier"));

License

danieleloscozzese/rely-on

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