Ketchup Lite is a lightweight and versatile Web Components library designed to enhance your web development experience. It is a fork stemming from the original Ketchup project, aiming to provide a streamlined and efficient set of tools for developers.
Built with modern standards and best practices in mind, Ketchup Lite offers a collection of reusable components that can seamlessly integrate into any web project, regardless of the framework or vanilla JavaScript setup.
- Customizable: Easily tailor the appearance and behavior of components to match your project's design system.
- Accessible: Designed with accessibility in mind, ensuring that your applications are usable by everyone.
- Efficient: Lightweight components that won't slow down your application.
- Cross-Browser Compatible: Works across all major browsers without additional polyfills.
- Framework Agnostic: Use with React, Vue, Angular, or just plain JavaScript.
To add Ketchup Lite to your project, you can install it via yarn:
yarn install ketchup-liteAfter installing, you can import and use Ketchup Lite components in your project. Here's a quick example of how to use the <kul-button> component:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Ketchup Lite Example</title>
<script type="module" src="./path/to/ketchup-lite/dist/index.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<kul-button kul-label="Click me!"/>
</body>
</html>Make sure to replace ./path/to/ketchup-lite/dist/index.js with the correct path to the index.js file in your node_modules/ketchup-lite directory.
Ketchup Lite, while sharing a common heritage with the original Ketchup project, has been tailored to cater to specific needs and preferences. Here are some key differences that set Ketchup Lite apart:
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Lighter: Ketchup Lite is designed to be significantly lighter, making it an ideal choice for personal websites or smaller projects where performance and load times are critical.
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Oriented Towards Personal Websites/Projects: With a focus on simplicity and ease of use, Ketchup Lite is more suited for individual developers or small teams working on personal projects. It offers a streamlined set of features that are easy to implement and maintain.
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Glassmorphism Look: Ketchup Lite incorporates a glassmorphism aesthetic throughout its components. This gives a modern, transparent, and sleek appearance to the UI elements, enhancing the visual appeal of personal projects.
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Absence of the KupObj Concept: Unlike the original Ketchup, Ketchup Lite does not include the KupObj concept.
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Absence of FComponents: Given the library's limited scope, converting its basic components to functional components is unnecessary. If you plan to add thousands of nested web components, it is recommended to stick to the original project.
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Event Management: Each component emits a single generic event that encapsulates various actions. Here is an example of how to listen for a button's click event:
const myButton = document.querySelector("kul-button");
myButton.addEventListener("kul-button-event", (e) => {
if (e.detail.eventType === "click") {
console.log("Click!");
}
});- Basic CI/CD pipeline setup.
- Development of basic components and functions.
- First npm package release.
- Add a showcase playground for each component.
- Improve and expand documentation and showcase.
- Add new components (i.e.: carousel).
- Enhance existing components with more features, particularly focusing on
kulDatamanagement.
For detailed information about each component, including available properties, events, and methods, please refer to the showcase.
I'm working on this project primarily for fun and for my portfolio website during my free time, but P.R. from other users that find this library useful are welcome!
Ketchup Lite is open-source software licensed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more details.
Special thanks to the following libraries and frameworks that make this project possible: