js-select

js-select uses js-traverse to traverse and modify JavaScript object nodes that match JSONSelect selectors.

var people = {
   george: {
      age : 35,
      movie: "Repo Man"
   },
   mary: {
      age: 15,
      movie: "Twilight"
   }
};

.forEach(fn)

Iterates over all matching nodes in the object. The callback gets a special this context. See js-traverse for all the things you can do to modify and inspect the node with this context. In addition, js-select adds a this.matches() which will test if the node matches a selector:

select(people).forEach(function(node) {
   if (this.matches(".mary > .movie")) {
      this.remove();
   }
});

.nodes()

Returns all matching nodes from the object.

select(people, ".age").nodes(); // [35, 15]

.remove()

Removes matching elements from the original object.

select(people, ".age").remove();

.update(fn)

Updates all matching nodes using the given callback.

select(people, ".age").update(function(age) {
   return age - 5;
});

.condense()

Reduces the original object down to only the matching elements (the hierarchy is maintained).

select(people, ".age").condense();

{
    george: { age: 35 },
    mary: { age: 15 }
}

Selectors

js-select supports the following JSONSelect selectors:

*
type
.key
ancestor selector
parent > selector
sibling ~ selector
selector1, selector2
:root
:nth-child(n)
:nth-child(even)
:nth-child(odd)
:nth-last-child(n)
:first-child
:last-child
:only-child
:has(selector)
:val("string")
:contains("substring")

See details on each selector, and try them out on the JSONSelect website.

Install

For node, install with npm:

npm install js-select

For the browser, download the select.js file or fetch the latest version from npm and build a browser file using browserify:

npm install browserify -g
npm install js-select

browserify --require js-select --outfile select.js

this will build a browser file with require('js-select') available.

Propers

Huge thanks to @substack for the ingenious js-traverse and @lloyd for the ingenious JSONSelect spec and selector parser.