hemmet

hemmet is a CLI-tool, that expands text snippets to markup blocks in Haskell/Elm/HTML/CSS/Bash. The template language is similar to Emmet/ZenCoding (has a subset of their features) and has an optional BEM flavour :) Also hemmet can generate file trees (useful for project scaffolding).

$ echo "#root>h1.red+p.article" | hemmet dom html
<div id="root">
  <h1 class="red"></h1>
  <p class="article"></p>
</div>

TUI

In addition to the CLI-tool there is a TUI-app hemmeti which one can use to write templates having a live preview.

That's how the HTML generation looks like:

And this is a file tree scaffolding:

Usage

$ hemmet INPUT OUTPUT -e EXPRESSION

or

$ echo "EXPRESSION" | hemmet INPUT OUTPUT

See hemmet --help for full options list.

hemmeti uses the same options but runs interactively.

Inputs (syntaxes)

• dom works with DOM-templates,
• bem works with BEM-templates,
• ftree works with file tree templates.

DOM-templates

Hemmet expands Emmet-like templates and produces these formats (outputs)

• html, just HTML

echo "#root>h1.red+p.article" | hemmet dom html

<div id="root">
  <h1 class="red"></h1>
  <p class="article"></p>
</div>

• css, styles for all classes in the template

echo "#root>h1.red+p.article" | hemmet dom css

.article {
}

.red {
}

• elm, an Elm.Html markup

echo "#root>h1.red+p.article" | hemmet dom css

div [ id "root" ]
    [ h1 [ class "red" ] []
    , p [ class "article" ] []
    ]

• lucid, the Lucid HTML eDSL

echo "#root>h1.red+p.article" | hemmet dom css

div_ [id_ "root"] $ do
  h1_ [class_ "red"]
  p_ [class_ "article"]

Template syntax

Nesting

p+ul>(li+li+ul>li+li)+p

<p></p>
<ul>
  <li></li>
  <li></li>
  <ul>
    <li></li>
    <li></li>
  </ul>
</ul>
<p></p>

Tags

Tag name prepends the id or classes if any. If no tag was defined the div will be used.

Id

Just #id, one at time.

Classes

Just .class.another, simple that.

BEM-templates

Hemmet expands BEM-templates with structure checking and produce outputs:

• react-flux — eDSL for react-flux Haskell library

$ echo ":foo>.bar" | hemmet bem react-flux

divc_ "foo" $ do
  divc_ "foo__bar" $ pure ()

• html

$ echo ":foo>.bar" | hemmet bem html

<div class="foo">
  <div class="foo__bar"></div>
</div>

• css

$ echo ":foo>.bar" | hemmet bem css

.foo {
}

.foo__bar {
}

Template syntax

Tags are the same.

Nesting

form:form>.submit:button>img.icon:icon+.label:label

<form class="form">
  <div class="button form__submit">
    <img class="icon button__icon"></img>
    <div class="label button__label"></div>
  </div>
</form>

Modifiers

form:login-form>button.submit-button:button~small~disabled

<form class="login-form">
  <button class="button button_small button_disabled login-form__submit-button"></button>
</form>

Variables

:foo$bar~baz

divc_ ("foo foo_baz" <> bar) $ pure ()

Note: at the moment variables are available only for the react-flux output!

Root node stripping

<:foo>.bar+.baz (note leading <)

<div class="foo__bar"></div>
<div class="foo__baz"></div>

File trees

The ftree templates can be transformed to:

• tree, the pseudographical file tree representation.

$ echo "docs/{todo.txt to_read.txt}" | hemmet ftree tree

.
└── docs/
    ├── to_read.txt
    └── todo.txt

• bash script, that constructs a real tree!

$ echo "docs/{todo.txt to_read.txt}" | hemmet ftree bash

#!/bin/bash
cat <<PREVIEW_END
This file tree will be created:
.
└── docs/
    ├── to_read.txt
    └── todo.txt
PREVIEW_END
read -p "Press any key to continue..." -n1 -s
set -euf -o pipefail
mkdir "docs" && pushd "docs"
  touch "to_read.txt"
  touch "todo.txt"
popd

You can even make a shell script that will call the TUI and then execute the result of generation automatically.

Generating Haskell source trees

With |hs| prefix you can scaffold Haskell projects: $ echo "|hs|app/main src/*lib/{data-types utils} !foo-bar" | hemmet ftree tree

.
├── App/
│   └── Main.hs
├── Src/
│   ├── Lib/
│   │   ├── DataTypes.hs
│   │   └── Utils.hs
│   └── Lib.hs
└── foo-bar

Note that

• files get .hs extension,
• * before lib means "also create a .hs module for this folder",
• ! before any name means "don't touch this item"
• "kebab-case" morphs to "CamelCase"

Generating Python source trees

With |py| prefix you can scaffold Python projects: $ echo "|py|src/*package/{core str-utils} !foo-bar" | hemmet ftree tree

.
├── foo-bar
└── src/
    └── package/
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── core.py
        └── str_utils.py

Note that

• files get .py extension,
• * before package means "also create an __init__.py module",
• ! before any name means "don't touch this item"
• "kebab-case" morphs to "snake_case"

Integration with Emacs

1. put a hemmet binary somewhere in $PATH
2. add to your .emacs

(defun hemmet-expand-region ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((f (lambda (b e)
             (shell-command-on-region
              b e "hemmet dom html" t t "*hemmet error*" t))))
    (if (region-active-p)
        (funcall f (region-beginning) (region-end))
      (funcall f (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))
    ))
;; bind using a function from "bind-key" package
(bind-key "C-c C-j" 'hemmet-expand-region html-mode-map)
;; or just use built-in function
(define-key haskell-mode-map (kbd "C-c C-j") 'hemmet-expand-region)