FruitMachine  

A lightweight component layout engine for client and server.

FruitMachine is designed to build rich interactive layouts from modular, reusable components. It's light and unopinionated so that it can be applied to almost any layout problem. FruitMachine is currently powering the FT Web App.

``js
// Define a module
var Apple = fruitmachine.define({
name: 'apple',
template: function(){ return 'hello' }
});

// Create a module
var apple = new Apple();

// Render it
apple.render();

apple.el.outerHTML;
//=>


`

Installation

`
$ npm install fruitmachine
`

or

`
$ bower install fruitmachine
`

or

Download the [pre-built version][built] (~2k gzipped).

[built]: http://wzrd.in/standalone/fruitmachine@latest

Examples

- Article viewer
- TODO

Documentation

- Introduction
- Getting started
- Defining modules
- Slots
- View assembly
- Instantiation
- Templates
- Template markup
- Rendering
- DOM injection
- The module element
- Queries
- Helpers
- Removing & destroying
- Extending
- Server-side rendering
- API
- Events

Tests

#### With PhantomJS

`
$ npm install
$ npm test
`

#### Without PhantomJS

`
$ node_modules/.bin/buster-static
``

...then visit http://localhost:8282/ in browser

Author

- Wilson Page - @wilsonpage

Contributors

- Wilson Page - @wilsonpage
- Matt Andrews - @matthew-andrews

License

Copyright (c) 2018 The Financial Times Limited
Licensed under the MIT license.

Credits and collaboration

FruitMachine is largely unmaintained/finished. All open source code released by FT Labs is licenced under the MIT licence. We welcome comments, feedback and suggestions. Please feel free to raise an issue or pull request.