A lightweight JavaScript library that allows developers to keep track of changes to JavaScript objects and/or DOM elements.
- 😏 Zero-dependencies and extremely lightweight!
- 🦾 Written in TypeScript, allowing greater support for React, Angular, and other libraries!
- 💻 Full API available via public functions.
- 🎥 JS Object and HTML DOM Element watching!
- 🔍 Watch for specific property changes!
- 🚀 Cancel, Pause, and Resume support!
- ☑️ Fully configurable!
- ☑️ Fully configurable per watch!
- ❓ Custom triggers for actions (when changes are detected, on cancellation, etc).
All modern browsers (such as Google Chrome, FireFox, and Opera) are fully supported.
To see a list of all the most recent changes, click here.
You can install the library with npm into your local modules directory using the following command:
npm install jobserve.js
To get started using Observe.js, do the following steps:
Make sure you include the "DOCTYPE html" tag at the top of your HTML, as follows:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<script src="dist/observe.js"></script>
<div data-observe-js="{ 'onChange': yourCustomJsFunction }">
Your HTML.
</div>
<script>
var id = $observe.watch( yourObject, {
onChange: yourCustomJsFunction
} );
</script>
To see a list of all the available binding options you can use for "data-observe-js", and "watch()", click here.
To see a list of all the available custom triggers you can use for "data-observe-js", and "watch()", click here.
That's it! Nice and simple. Please refer to the code if you need more help (fully documented).
To customize, and get more out of Observe.js, please read through the following documentation.
To see a list of all the public functions available, click here.
Configuration options allow you to customize how Observe.js will function. You can set them as follows:
<script>
$observe.setConfiguration( {
safeMode: false
} );
</script>
To see a list of all the available configuration options you can use, click here.