martindale/intercooler-js

A declarative, REST-ful data binding library for web applications

Intercooler.js

What it is

Intercooler is a PVC framework that allows you to add AJAX to your application with declarative HTML5-style bindings and REST-ful URLs, giving web applications a richer UX with a minimum of code.

What that means

It makes AJAX simple, you don't even need to write any JavaScript! Here's an example of a basic POST request:

// When this is clicked, a post request is sent to /example
<button ic-post-to="/example">
    Click Me!
</button>

// When a post request is sent to /example, the response goes here
<span ic-src="/example"></span>

How to use

Intercooler depends on JQuery and can be installed like this:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/intercoolerjs.org/release/intercooler-0.0.1.min.js"></script>

Or you can download the latest version and embed it locally.

More examples

Polling

Send a GET request to "/visitors/count" every two seconds and update the innerHTML to the response:

<div ic-src="/visitors/count" ic-poll="2s">
    There are currently 42 users online.
</div>

Adding input

This AJAX includes the value of #password in it's request.

Enter a password: <input id="password" name="pass">

<button ic-post-to="/hash/sha256" ic-include="#password">
    Hash password
</button>

<div ic-src="/hash/sha256">
    Your hashed password will go here
</div>

Learn more at intercoolerjs.org (there's lots more!).

Versioning

We have adopted Semantic Versioning for IntercoolerJS as of the 0.2.0 release.