Sketch Lustre

In case you’re here and don’t know Sketch, take a look at sketch package!

This readme is a carbon-copy of the Sketch Lustre section in sketch readme.

Setup

If you’re using Lustre (which is strongly recommended), sketch_lustre got you. sketch_lustre exposes one entrypoint, sketch/lustre, containing everything needed to get started.

// main.gleam
import lustre
import sketch
import sketch/lustre as sketch_lustre

pub fn main() {
  // Initialise the cache & setup it for use with Lustre. This should be done
  // once before rendering the application. You can initialize one stylesheet
  // for your entire app, or multiple stylesheets if you're running server
  // components (in that case, one stylesheet per client is recommended).
  let assert Ok(stylesheet) = sketch_lustre.setup()
  // Because stylesheets are persistents with sketch_lustre, you can inject
  // classes, keyframes or @rules directly in it.
  sketch.global(stylesheet, css.global("body", [css.margin(px(0))]))
  // Generate the partial view function, compatible with Lustre's runtime.
  lustre.simple(init, update, view(_, stylesheet))
  // And voilà!
  |> lustre.start("#app", Nil)
}

fn view(model, stylesheet) {
  // Add the sketch CSS generation "view middleware". If you don't, your `view`
  // function _will panic_. This behaviour is expected, to make sure you never
  // ship an unstyled application to your customers. A Lustre application made
  // to run with Sketch without StyleSheet setuped will always fail.
  use <- sketch_lustre.render(stylesheet:, in: [sketch_lustre.node()])
  // Run your actual view function.
  my_view(model)
}

Usage

sketch_lustre exposes two modules to help you build your site, similarly to Lustre: sketch/lustre/element and sketch/lustre/element/html. The first one let you use raw element generation and element helpers, i.e. element, fragment, map & namespaced.

Every functions from sketch/lustre/element or sketch/lustre/element/html returns native lustre/element.Element type, but takes an additional argument: a sketch.Class as first argument. You can mix and match Sketch functions (coming from sketch/lustre/element) and classical Lustre functions (coming from lustre/element). There’s no difference for the runtime: the former will simply be a Lustre Element, with a class applied on it, while the latter will be a simple Lustre Element.

NB: all elements can be generated using the correct function, or using its “underscored” version. In the second case, Sketch Lustre behaves exactly like Lustre, and will not add another class. This is helpful when you want to use a simple node, without any class linked on it, but you still want to import only one module, i.e. import sketch/lustre/element.

import sketch/css
import sketch/css/length.{px}
import sketch/lustre/element
import sketch/lustre/element/html

fn main_style() {
  css.class([
    css.background("red"),
    css.font_size(px(16)),
  ])
}

fn view(model: Int) {
  html.div(main_style(), [], [
    html.div_([], [
      html.text(int.to_string(model)),
    ]),
  ])
}

And you’re done! Enjoy your Lustre app, Sketch-enhanced!

Final notes

Shipping ready-to-use components

Components in Lustre can take various shapes, from simple HMTL functions to proper, rich components with internal states. In case you want to distribute a components system built with Lustre (which has numerous advantages, one of them being that you don’t need to ship a .css file), it’s recommended to not inject a stylesheet on your own, but rather ask the user to initialize Sketch on their own. It’s usual with Sketch to have one stylesheet, shared among the entire application. Do not worry about it: browsers tend to favour huge stylesheets. Indeed, browsers usually deal with static CSS. As such, CSS algorithms are optimized for classes that do not change. When a class change, lots of changes should be applied through the DOM, to reflect the new styles. When making sure no class will ever change in the stylesheet, Sketch ensures the browser will never have to recompute twice a CSS class!

Usage with Shadow DOM

In browser, Sketch can work with a Shadow DOM, in order to hide the compiled styles from the rest of the application. With a proper shadow root (represented as a Dynamic in Gleam), you can use sketch/lustre.shadow() to render a stylesheet in the shadow root directly. In the same way you can initialize the cache to render in document or in a style node, you can use a shadow root to paint styles in your application!