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Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method?

From	Doc O'Leary <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method?
Date	2016-12-24 16:15 +0000
Organization	Subsume Technologies, Inc.
Message-ID	<o3m6up$3e3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I’m looking to avoid overwrought template frameworks; the idea is that 
I have a data-centric app that needs to display arbitrary JSON input, 
but do a bit more than just pretty print it.  I wouldn’t be opposed to 
*some* small amount of customization in the look for the more 
structured info, but it would need to come with low overhead and be 
easy to drop in for someone (like a research scientist) that doesn’t 
know a lot about HTML or JavaScript/JSON beyond the basic syntax.

My starting approach was to just drop a .toHTML() method on object 
prototypes that kicks out some appropriate markup (e.g., Array items 
become <li> elements).  It works well enough, but it’s already clear 
that I’m going to need to factor things out to some kind of framework 
if I want to get fancy.  Something straightforward must already exist!

No event hooks needed.  No $global objects for tricky manipulation of 
the DOM necessary.  No grand visions to transform JavaScript into a 
whole new language wanted.  I just have data that I want to make semi-
attractive in a web page.

If it scales *up* to those other things it’s probably a bonus, but 
I’m really hoping to find something that scales down.  I’ve found a 
couple likely candidates, but I’m wondering if there’s anything really 
popular on the small end of the scale, or must the framework starting 
point be a dependency on jQuery these days.

Thanks.

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Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-12-24 16:15 +0000
  Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-12-25 18:01 +0700
    Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? $Bill <news@todbe.com> - 2016-12-25 15:40 -0800
      Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2016-12-25 16:21 -0800
        Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? $Bill <news@todbe.com> - 2016-12-25 19:36 -0800
          Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2016-12-26 04:50 -0800
            Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? $Bill <news@todbe.com> - 2016-12-26 15:08 -0800
              Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 19:26 -0800
    Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-12-26 23:19 +0700
      Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-12-26 23:30 +0700
    Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-12-26 16:27 +0000
  Re: Simply displaying JSON data for users: what is your preferred method? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-12-26 12:36 -0800

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