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Build, test, and publish vanilla Web Components with a little spice
https://github.com/abraham/nutmeg

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Build, test, and publish vanilla Web Components with a little spice

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๐Ÿšง _Nutmeg is in active development and it's APIs are still in flux._

## ๐Ÿ‘Œ Overview

Nutmeg is here to help you build, test, and publish Web Components in minutes.

By default you get the following:

- Custom Elements v1
- Shadow DOM v1
- TypeScript
- lit-html
- Karma test runner with headless browser launchers
- Git
- MIT license
- Web Component best practices

## ๐ŸŒฑ Build

Generating a Nutmeg Web Component skeleton with [npm init](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init) has the API ` [property:type...]`.

```bash
npm init @nutmeg hello-world name:string
```

This will create a `hello-world` directory, stub out a base Web Component class `HelloWorld` that extends the Nutmeg `Seed` base class, and install the default dependencies. You can use either `fullName` or `full-name` for multi-word properties and `full-name` will be used for HTML attributes and `fullName` will be used in JavaScript.

_Note: Yarn is not supported but may work._

### ๐Ÿก Properties

Properties must be valid TypeScript types. For example `string`, `boolean`, `number`, `string[]`, `Element`.

```bash
npm init @nutmeg grilled-cheese quantity:number pickles:boolean cheese:string[]
```

Properties are the public API of your Web Component and external code can set/get them.

```javascript
export class GrilledCheese extends Seed {
@property() public bread: string;
@property() public cheese: string[];
@property() public pickles: boolean;
@property() public quantity: number;
...
}
```

The `@property()` decorator provides some nice features out of the box. There are two kinds of properties.

- Primitive: `boolean`, `string`, and `number`.
- Complex: any types that are not primitive.

#### โœ๏ธ Automatic rendering

Any properties decorated with `@property` will automatically render when set.

#### ๐Ÿ“Ÿ Primitive properties are reflected to the DOM

- **boolean**: `grilledCheese.pickle = true;` => ``
- **number**: `grilledCheese.quantity = 5;` => ``
- **string**: `grilledCheese.bread = 'sourdough';` => ``

#### ๐Ÿ“ฑ One-time complex property loading from attributes

On instantiation of a Web Component a one-time loading and JSON parsing happens of complex properties. In the following example `cheese` has the type of `string[]`. When connected the component will have the attribute removed and the value set as a property after `JSON.parse`.

The following example:

```html

```

Yields:

```javascript
grilledCheese.cheese.includes('sharp cheddar') === true;
```

```html

```

#### `$` and `$$`

`$` and `$$` are shortcuts provided for quickly selecting elements within the shadowRoot.

- `$` is a shortcut for `this.shadowRoot.querySelector`.
- `$$` is a shortcut for `this.shadowRoot.querySelectorAll`.

### ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ Serve

You can now serve the component for development on http://localhost:8080 by running:

```bash
npm start
```

With `start` running you can make edits to the component and see the changes take effect automatically without manually refreshing.

## ๐Ÿงช Test

Running the tests from within `hello-world`.

```bash
npm test
```

### ๐Ÿ”ญ Continuous Integration

Components are generated with [AppVeyor](https://www.appveyor.com/), [CircleCI](https://circleci.com/), and [TravisCI](https://travis-ci.org/) pre-configured to run tests on Windows, macOS, and Linux respectively.

## ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ Publish

Publishing to NPM is easy but make sure you are logged in first with `npm login`. Be sure to fill out `package.json` values like author and update the name in `readme.md` if you change it.

```bash
npm publish
```

### ๐Ÿ“‡ Dependencies

Once published, it's recommended that you set up [Renovate](https://renovateapp.com/) to keep your dependencies current. Nutmeg has already setup a default renovate config for you, you just have to [install the free GitHub app](https://github.com/apps/renovate).

## ๐Ÿ˜Ž Best practices

Out of the box many of the [Google Web Fundamentals Custom Element Best Practices](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-components/best-practices#place-any-children-the-element-creates-into-its-shadow-root) are handled automatically.

## ๐Ÿ” Examples

- [HelloWorld](https://github.com/abraham/nutmeg-hello-world) built using `nutmeg new hello-world name:string`.
- [TwitterStatus](https://github.com/abraham/twitter-status) for embedding tweets.

## ๐Ÿ‘” License

Nutmeg is released under an MIT license.