preact-views

Named views for Preact, with easy-as-pie linking between them!

preact-views provides a <Views /> component that renders its children only when their name prop is selected as the current "view". The current view name can be set via a prop, or automatically through the provided <Link /> component.

Note: preact-views is simple and does not do orchestration or routing for you. If you're looking for a URL router, try preact-router.

See a Real-world Example ➡️

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Complete Example

import { Views, Link } from 'preact-views';
import { h, render } from 'preact';

const Home = () => (
	<div>
		<h1>Home!</h1>
		<Link to="other" params={{ value:1 }}>Go Other</Link>
	</div>
);

const Other = ({ value=0 }) => (
	<div>
		<h1>Other.</h1>
		<Link to="home">Go Home</Link>
		<p>value is {value}.</p>
		<Link to="other" params={{ value: value+1 }}>Increment</Link>
	</div>
);

render((
	<Views view="home">
		<Home name="home" />
		<Other name="other" />
	</Views>
), document.body);

See it running ➡️

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Simple Example

import Views from 'preact-views';
import { h, render } from 'preact';

render((
	<Views view="one">
		<div name="one">one</div>
		<div name="two">two</div>
	</Views>
), document.body);

// renders a div containing the text "one"

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License

MIT