virtual-dom
一个 JavaScript DOM 模型,支持元素创建,diff计算和补丁操作以实现高效的重新渲染
Motivation
手动 DOM 操作是混乱的并且跟踪以前的 DOM 状态很难。 这个问题的解决方案是在编写代码时就好像在状态发生变化时重新创建整个 DOM 一样。 当然,如果每次应用程序状态更改时您实际上都重新创建了整个 DOM,那么您的应用程序会非常慢并且您的输入字段会失去焦点。
virtual-dom
是一组模块,旨在为您的应用程序提供一种表示 DOM 的声明方式。 因此,无需在应用程序状态更改时更新 DOM,您只需创建一个虚拟树或 VTree
,它看起来像您想要的 DOM 状态。 virtual-dom
将弄清楚如何在不重新创建所有 DOM 节点的情况下有效地使 DOM 看起来像这样。
virtual-dom
允许您在状态发生变化时更新视图,方法是创建视图的完整 VTree
,然后有效地修补 DOM 以使其看起来与您描述的完全一样。 这导致将手动 DOM 操作和以前的状态跟踪保留在您的应用程序代码之外,从而促进 Web 应用程序的干净和可维护的呈现逻辑。
Example
var h = require('virtual-dom/h');
var diff = require('virtual-dom/diff');
var patch = require('virtual-dom/patch');
var createElement = require('virtual-dom/create-element');
// 1: Create a function that declares what the DOM should look like
function render(count) {
return h('div', {
style: {
textAlign: 'center',
lineHeight: (100 + count) + 'px',
border: '1px solid red',
width: (100 + count) + 'px',
height: (100 + count) + 'px'
}
}, [String(count)]);
}
// 2: Initialise the document
var count = 0; // We need some app data. Here we just store a count.
var tree = render(count); // We need an initial tree
var rootNode = createElement(tree); // Create an initial root DOM node ...
document.body.appendChild(rootNode); // ... and it should be in the document
// 3: Wire up the update logic
setInterval(function () {
count++;
var newTree = render(count);
var patches = diff(tree, newTree);
rootNode = patch(rootNode, patches);
tree = newTree;
}, 1000);
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Documentation
您可以找到单独组件的文档
在他们的自述文件中
,有关这些模块的类型签名的信息感觉
免费阅读 javascript 签名定义
DOM model
virtual-dom
公开了一组设计用于表示 DOM 节点的对象。 “文档对象模型模型”似乎是一个奇怪的术语,但它确实如此。 它是一个原生的 JavaScript 树结构,代表了一个原生的 DOM 节点树。 我们称之为 VTree
我们可以直接以冗长的方式使用对象创建 VTree,或者我们可以使用更简洁的 virtual-hyperscript。
Example - creating a VTree using the objects directly
var VNode = require('virtual-dom/vnode/vnode');
var VText = require('virtual-dom/vnode/vtext');
function render(data) {
return new VNode('div', {
className: "greeting"
}, [
new VText("Hello " + String(data.name))
]);
}
module.exports = render;
Example - creating a VTree using virtual-hyperscript
var h = require('virtual-dom/h');
function render(data) {
return h('.greeting', ['Hello ' + data.name]);
}
module.exports = render;
DOM 模型旨在高效地创建和读取。 我们不只是创建一个真正的 DOM 树的原因是创建 DOM 节点和读取节点属性是一个昂贵的操作,这是我们试图避免的。 读取一些 DOM 节点属性甚至会产生副作用,因此用真实的 DOM 节点重新创建整个 DOM 结构根本不适合高性能渲染,而且也不容易推理。
VTree
被设计为等同于不可变数据结构。 虽然它实际上不是不可变的,但您可以在多个地方重用节点,并且我们公开的将 VTrees 作为参数的函数永远不会改变树。 我们可以冻结模型中的对象,但不是为了效率。 (不可变等效数据结构的好处将在某些时候记录在 vtree 或博客文章中)
Element creation
createElement(tree:VTree) -> DOMNode
鉴于我们已经创建了一个 VTree
,我们需要一些方法将其转换为真正的 DOM 树某种。 这是由 create-element.js
提供的。 首次渲染时,我们会将完整的 VTree
传递给 create-element 函数以创建等效的 DOM 节点。
Diff computation
diff(previous:VTree, current:VTree) -> PatchObject
virtual-dom 背后的主要动机是允许我们编写独立于先前状态的代码。 因此,当我们的应用程序状态发生变化时,我们将生成一个新的 VTree
。 diff
函数创建一组 DOM 补丁,这些补丁基于之前的 VTree
和当前的 VTree
之间的差异,将更新之前的 DOM树以匹配新的 VTree
。
Patch operations
patch(rootNode:DOMNode, patches:PatchObject) -> DOMNode newRootNode
一旦我们计算出应用到 DOM 所需的补丁集,我们就需要一个可以应用这些补丁的函数。 这是由 patch
函数提供的。 给定一个 DOM 根节点和一组 DOM 补丁,patch
函数将更新 DOM。 将补丁应用到 DOM 后,DOM 应该看起来像新的 VTree
。
Original motivation
virtual-dom 深受 facebook 的 React 内部工作原理的启发。 这个项目起源于一个想法的要点,我们已将其链接以提供一些背景信息。
virtual-dom
A JavaScript DOM model supporting element creation, diff computation and patch operations for efficient re-rendering
Motivation
Manual DOM manipulation is messy and keeping track of the previous DOM state is hard. A solution to this problem is to write your code as if you were recreating the entire DOM whenever state changes. Of course, if you actually recreated the entire DOM every time your application state changed, your app would be very slow and your input fields would lose focus.
virtual-dom
is a collection of modules designed to provide a declarative way of representing the DOM for your app. So instead of updating the DOM when your application state changes, you simply create a virtual tree or VTree
, which looks like the DOM state that you want. virtual-dom
will then figure out how to make the DOM look like this efficiently without recreating all of the DOM nodes.
virtual-dom
allows you to update a view whenever state changes by creating a full VTree
of the view and then patching the DOM efficiently to look exactly as you described it. This results in keeping manual DOM manipulation and previous state tracking out of your application code, promoting clean and maintainable rendering logic for web applications.
Example
var h = require('virtual-dom/h');
var diff = require('virtual-dom/diff');
var patch = require('virtual-dom/patch');
var createElement = require('virtual-dom/create-element');
// 1: Create a function that declares what the DOM should look like
function render(count) {
return h('div', {
style: {
textAlign: 'center',
lineHeight: (100 + count) + 'px',
border: '1px solid red',
width: (100 + count) + 'px',
height: (100 + count) + 'px'
}
}, [String(count)]);
}
// 2: Initialise the document
var count = 0; // We need some app data. Here we just store a count.
var tree = render(count); // We need an initial tree
var rootNode = createElement(tree); // Create an initial root DOM node ...
document.body.appendChild(rootNode); // ... and it should be in the document
// 3: Wire up the update logic
setInterval(function () {
count++;
var newTree = render(count);
var patches = diff(tree, newTree);
rootNode = patch(rootNode, patches);
tree = newTree;
}, 1000);
View on RequireBin
Documentation
You can find the documentation for the seperate components
in their READMEs
For information about the type signatures of these modules feel
free to read the javascript signature definition
DOM model
virtual-dom
exposes a set of objects designed for representing DOM nodes. A "Document Object Model Model" might seem like a strange term, but it is exactly that. It's a native JavaScript tree structure that represents a native DOM node tree. We call this a VTree
We can create a VTree using the objects directly in a verbose manner, or we can use the more terse virtual-hyperscript.
Example - creating a VTree using the objects directly
var VNode = require('virtual-dom/vnode/vnode');
var VText = require('virtual-dom/vnode/vtext');
function render(data) {
return new VNode('div', {
className: "greeting"
}, [
new VText("Hello " + String(data.name))
]);
}
module.exports = render;
Example - creating a VTree using virtual-hyperscript
var h = require('virtual-dom/h');
function render(data) {
return h('.greeting', ['Hello ' + data.name]);
}
module.exports = render;
The DOM model is designed to be efficient to create and read from. The reason why we don't just create a real DOM tree is that creating DOM nodes and reading the node properties is an expensive operation which is what we are trying to avoid. Reading some DOM node properties even causes side effects, so recreating the entire DOM structure with real DOM nodes simply isn't suitable for high performance rendering and it is not easy to reason about either.
A VTree
is designed to be equivalent to an immutable data structure. While it's not actually immutable, you can reuse the nodes in multiple places and the functions we have exposed that take VTrees as arguments never mutate the trees. We could freeze the objects in the model but don't for efficiency. (The benefits of an immutable-equivalent data structure will be documented in vtree or blog post at some point)
Element creation
createElement(tree:VTree) -> DOMNode
Given that we have created a VTree
, we need some way to translate this into a real DOM tree of some sort. This is provided by create-element.js
. When rendering for the first time we would pass a complete VTree
to create-element function to create the equivalent DOM node.
Diff computation
diff(previous:VTree, current:VTree) -> PatchObject
The primary motivation behind virtual-dom is to allow us to write code independent of previous state. So when our application state changes we will generate a new VTree
. The diff
function creates a set of DOM patches that, based on the difference between the previous VTree
and the current VTree
, will update the previous DOM tree to match the new VTree
.
Patch operations
patch(rootNode:DOMNode, patches:PatchObject) -> DOMNode newRootNode
Once we have computed the set of patches required to apply to the DOM, we need a function that can apply those patches. This is provided by the patch
function. Given a DOM root node and a set of DOM patches, the patch
function will update the DOM. After applying the patches to the DOM, the DOM should look like the new VTree
.
Original motivation
virtual-dom is heavily inspired by the inner workings of React by facebook. This project originated as a gist of ideas, which we have linked to provide some background context.