DataBind.js 0.4.1 Download

About

DataBind is a 2-way data binding library.
It lets you easily bind a DOM element (and optionally its subtree) to a Model (Object) and keep them at sync.
At 3159 bytes minified & gzipped, it is the smallest 2-way binding library available to date!

Dependencies

Non what so ever!
It's only dependency is Watch.JS not needed since 0.1.1 internalized the library

Compatible with all serious browsers :P

Works with: IE 9+, FF 4+, SF 5+, WebKit, CH 7+, OP 12+

HTML Script TAG

<script src="DataBind.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- DataBind will be global variable window.DataBind -->

RequireJS

require("DataBind", function(DataBind){
    var bind = DataBind.bind;
    var unbind = DataBind.unbind;
});

Examples

Live Demo!

On CodePen.io - here

<textarea   data-key="k1" id="id1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>

var model = {
    k1: 'Some text'
};
DataBind.bind( document.getElementById('id1'), model );

Allow deep key bindings

<textarea   data-key="k1.x" id="id1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>

var model = {
    k1: {
        x: 'Some text'
    }
};
DataBind.bind( document.getElementById('id1'), model );

Allow binding to jQuery elements

<textarea   data-key="k1" id="id1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>

var model = {
    k1:  'Some text'
};
DataBind.bind( $('#id1'), model );

Allow binding of entire subtree (by default)

<div id="id1">
    <div>
        <textarea data-key="k1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>    
    </div>
    <div data-key="k2" ></div>
</div>

var model = {
    k1:  'Some text',
    k2:  'Some Div'
};
DataBind.bind( $('#id1'), model );

Allow binding of models with arrays

<textarea  id="id1" data-key="k1[1].k2[0].id" id="id1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>

var model = {
    k1: [
        {k2: 'not me'},
        {k2: [
            {
                id: "i'm it"
            }
        ]}
    ]
};
DataBind.bind( $('#id1'), model );

Confiureable binding

<textarea   data-key="k1" id="id1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>

var model = {
    k1: 'Some text'
};
DataBind.bind( document.getElementById('id1'), model, {
    dom: true, // bind dom to model changes
    model: true, // bind model to dom changes
    children: true // bind entire element's tree
} );

Unbind whenever you want, whatever you want

<textarea   data-key="k1" id="id1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>

var model = {
    k1: 'Some text'
};
DataBind.unbind( document.getElementById('id1'), model, {
    dom: true, // unbind dom to model changes - does not have to be same as given to 'bind'
    model: true, // unbind model to dom changes  - does not have to be same as given to 'bind'
    children: true // unbind entire element's tree  - does not have to be same as given to 'bind'
} );

bind returns a Watchable

<textarea   data-key="k1" id="id1" rows="5" cols="30"></textarea>

var model = {
    k1: 'Some text'
};
var watchable = DataBind.bind( document.getElementById('id1'), model);
var printer = function(ev) {
    console.log('#' + this.id + 
                ' ev:' + ev.type + 
                ' old val:' + ev.data.oldValue +
                ' new val:' + ev.data.newValue +
                ' key:' + ev.data.key);
};
watchable.watch( printer );
// later on...
watchable.unwatch( printer );
// or remove all watchers
watchable.unwatch();

Version 0.4.1

• Add support for many input field types ('email', 'url', 'week', 'time', 'search', 'tel', 'range', 'number', 'month', 'datetime-local', 'date', 'color') by @rdblakemore

Version 0.4.0

• Add support for binding to models with arrays, e.g. data-key="k1[0].k3[1].id" , as requested in Issue #8

Version 0.3.2

• Fix issue #9 - allow password fields

Coming up!

Plans for future release includes:

• Remove unused code from intercorporated watch.js code
• Automate build and minification process
• Improve demo to enable editing the model and displaying the logs visually
• More browsers support (IE8, IE7? IE6?!)
• Other things you request :)

Testing

Open test/index.html in any browser

Contributing

If you wish to help with improving this library, feel free to fork and pull-request