Getting Started

Let's start with a simple example, I'll explain what's going on after I show you the code.

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Example

The example code sets up a simple web page with a counter that increments on clicking a button and also displays an updating message.

You can copy-paste it into a .html file and open it in a browser to see how it works.

<!-- 1. Link Strawberry -->
<head>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/sberry@0.0.3-alpha.0/dist/sb.min.js"></script>
</head>

<!-- 2. Define a Component -->
<template name="cool-button">
  <button
    style="
        padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
        border: 2px solid black;
        border-radius: 0px;
        box-shadow: 4px 4px 0px gray;
      "
  >
    <slot />
  </button>
</template>

<!-- 3. Initialize Strawberry -->
<script>
  const data = sb.init();
  data.counter = 0;
</script>

<!-- 4. Use the Component -->
<body>
  <cool-button sb-mark="message" onclick="data.counter += 1">
    loading...
  </cool-button>
</body>

<!-- 5. Update the Component -->
<script>
  data.message = () => `Clicked ${data.counter} times`;
</script>

Explanation

In the above example we are rendering a button component called cool-button which on clicking increments counter and which updates the button's innerText.

I have added comments that to mark sections of the code above, I'll explain what's going on in each of them:

1. Link Strawberry

<head>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/sberry@0.0.3-alpha.0/dist/sb.min.js"></script>
</head>

This loads and runs the sb.min.js file from unpkg. On doing this, the sb object becomes available in the global scope. You can open the console, type sb and check that it is defined.

Documentation Link:

Installation

2. Define Component

<template name="cool-button">
  <button
    style="
        padding: 0.5rem 1rem;
        border: 2px solid black;
        border-radius: 0px;
        box-shadow: 4px 4px 0px gray;
      "
  >
    <slot />
  </button>
</template>

This defines a component inside a template tag with the name attribute deciding what the component will be called ("cool-button"). The component defined is a button component with some styling added to it.

Documentation Link:

3. Initialize Strawberry

<script>
  const data = sb.init();
  data.counter = 0;
</script>

This calls sb.init to do two things:

Register our defined components (i.e. cool-button).
Returns the reactive object data which updates UI when its values change.

Along with that we are also initializing data.counter with the value 0.

Documentation Links:

4. Use the Component

<body>
  <cool-button sb-mark="message" onclick="data.counter += 1">
    loading...
  </cool-button>
</body>

Use the cool-button component to display a button. Here two things are going on:

sb-mark="message": this attribute means "whenever data.message changes, update the innerText of this component.""
onclick="data.counter += 1": this is an inline function that increments data.counter that was defined in section

Info

You can also use some other way of adding an event listener. For example, by using a directive. I've used this for brevity.

5. Update the Component

<script>
  data.message = () => `Clicked ${data.counter} times`;
</script>

This finally just defines what the message from sb-mark="message" is. Here the message is a function that depends on data.counter, i.e. it is a computed property.

Which means whenever data.counter changes the value of message changes too.

Now whenever you click on the cool-button, the following things happen

counter increments.
data.counter is re-run because it depends on counter.
the value of data.counter is used to set the innerText of cool-button.

Info

Since data.message is a computed property, the following is true.
typeof data.message === 'string';

Documentation Links:

Computed Values

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