htmltable

When converting an object stream into an HTML table, you have the problem that you need to know all the keys in the beginning. However this would mean loading all the data into memory before rendering.

This module is written for the browser and will update the head with javascript while streaming the data.

Install it with npm install htmltable and use it with browserify. You can test the module by running npm run build and open the test.html file.

Usage

var htmltable = require('htmltable')

var table = htmltable(document.querySelector('#table'))

table.write({a: 1})
window.setTimeout(function () {
  table.write({a: 2, b:1})
  table.end()
}, 1000)

You can also pass in a selector like htmltable('#table') directly.

where the body of the HTMl element contains:

<div id="table"></div>

it will eventually be

<div id="table">
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>a</th>
      <th>b</ah>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>2</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
</div>

but you will be able to see the first row before the second comes in.