Elements Proxy

Get direct access to any HTMLElement with an ID:

<div id="myId">Hi</div>
<div id="myOtherId">Other</div>

<script>
  import elementsProxy from 'https://unpkg.com/[email protected]';

  const elements = elementsProxy();
  elements.myId.textContent = 'Bye';
  elements.myOtherId.hidden = true;
</script>

This function returns a Proxy object. When a property is accessed on that object, the Proxy takes the property name and uses document.getElementById() to find an element with that id. It then caches a reference to that element on the returned object for direct and instant access. If an element is not found, document.getElementById() returns null which is the value saved for that property. However, subsequent access to properties with no element will attempt document.getElementById() again until an element is found and cached.

Why?

Because document.all is unreliable and document.getElementById() gets messy:

// You have to do all these lookups and create
// variables for all the elements you need.
const a = document.getElementById('a');
const b = document.getElementById('b');
const c = document.getElementById('c');
const d = document.getElementById('d');
const e = document.getElementById('e');
const f = document.getElementById('f');
const g = document.getElementById('g');

// Do stuff to those elements
if (data.length > 0) {
  a.textConent = 'Hello world';
  a.hidden = false;
}

b.classList.toggle('flex-col');
c.addEventListener('click', callback);
// and so on...

// Or worse: Repeated use of the id string, wasted lookups, and noisy code
if (x > y) {
  document.getElementById('a').textConent = 'Hello world';
  document.getElementById('a').hidden = false;
}

document.getElementById('b').classList.toggle('flex-col');
document.getElementById('c').addEventListener('click', callback)

Get cleaner faster code with Elements Proxy:

// One line of code regardless of the number of elements needed
const elements = elementsProxy();

if (data.length > 0) {
  // Simple access to elements as properties instead of string names
  elements.a.textConent = 'Hello world';
  // Cached lookups on subsequent access
  elements.a.hidden = false;
}

// Much cleaner all around
elements.b.classList.toggle('flex-col');
elements.c.addEventListener('click', callback)

Install

Honestly, don't bother! It's only a few lines of code, so just copy-paste index.js into your app and be done :)

Or import it:

import elementsProxy from 'https://unpkg.com/[email protected]';

Or install:

npm install elementsproxy

Requirements

This package has no dependencies and uses JavScript's Proxy object internally.