domonic-libs

DOM-shaped Python ports and an optional pywebview app wrapper built on domonic.

Experimental libraries

Additional ports and experimental libraries not included with the standard domonic installation.

This package is deliberately split:

• libs for compatibility testing domonic.
• an app wrapper for building desktop UIs from domonic trees.

but they will be here so you can use them in an app if you want by importing off the tags here.

Behaviours that trip up the ports are logged to feed back upstream: DOM ones in docs/domonic-wrinkles.md, and domonic.javascript (the JS runtime shim) ones in docs/javascript-wrinkles.md, driven by the acorn parser port.

Install

To get all the libraries like Mermaid, preact, turndown, marked, validator, qs, dompurify, readability etc...

pip install domonic-libs

The pywebview app wrapper is an optional extra:

pip install "domonic-libs[app]"

Hack on the repo and run examples:

python3 -m venv .venv
./.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt   # editable install + dev deps
./.venv/bin/python examples/dompurify_demo.py
make test

The app wrapper API is in docs/app.md; the dlx CLI in docs/cli.md. myjs -- a JavaScript interpreter with an ffi bridge to native C -- ships as its own package (pip install myjs), built from src/myjs/ via packaging/myjs/; see docs/myjs.md and docs/publishing.md. Ported modules keep their upstream licenses -- see THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.

Command line -- dlx

Installing the package puts a dlx command on your PATH (also aliased domonic-libs, or run it as python -m domonic_libs). The cleanest way to get just the CLI, isolated, is pipx:

pipx install domonic-libs

# ...or run it once without installing
pipx run --spec domonic-libs dlx --help

Every text command reads a file argument, or stdin when the argument is - or omitted, and writes to --output / -o or stdout -- so they pipe.

# Mermaid -> SVG (flowchart / sequence / pie / timeline, auto-detected)
dlx mermaid architecture.mmd -o architecture.svg
dlx mermaid architecture.mmd --open           # render + open in the browser
dlx mermaid architecture.mmd --stats          # counts on stderr
cat flow.mmd | dlx mermaid --html > flow.html

# Markdown <-> HTML
echo "# Hi *there*" | dlx md
dlx html2md article.html --gfm > article.md

# Pull the readable article out of a page
dlx read https://example.com/some/post --md > post.md
dlx read page.html --json                      # just the metadata

# Sanitise hostile HTML (DOMPurify)
dlx sanitize comment.html --profile html --report

# One-off validator.js checks (exit 0 = true, 1 = false)
dlx validate isEmail ada@example.com
dlx validate isIBAN DE89370400440532013000
dlx validate --list

# Query strings
dlx qs parse "user[name]=ada&tags[]=a&tags[]=b"
dlx qs stringify '{"a": 1, "b": {"c": 2}}'

# Minify / format JavaScript -- pure Python, no Node (acorn parse -> generate)
dlx minify app.js -o app.min.js
cat src/*.js | dlx fmt --indent 2

# Lay out and draw an arbitrary graph with the dagre port
printf 'build -> test\ntest -> deploy\nbuild -> lint\nlint -> deploy\n' \
  | dlx dagre --rankdir LR -o pipeline.svg

dlx <command> -h lists each command's options; full reference in docs/cli.md.

Library Ports

The domonic repo has tests but also small complex ports like javascript and libraries like dquery and d3 were done to make sure the DOM was behaving as it should.

The more things I can port faithfully from js, the more expectations on the DOM I can correct. And out of that will also pop useful tools.

DOMPurify

from domonic_libs.dompurify import sanitize

clean = sanitize('<p onclick="x"><a href="javascript:bad()">bad</a>Hello</p>')
print(clean)

A port of DOMPurify -- config options, hooks, namespaces, RETURN_DOM / WHOLE_DOCUMENT, and DOM-clobbering protection. It runs DOMPurify's own test/fixtures/expect.mjs corpus (tests/fixtures/dompurify/expect.json, 223 real-world XSS payloads) at 212/223 exact-match with default config; the remaining eleven are fidelity gaps (safe output, not byte-identical) from domonic's HTML5 parser or DOMPurify's deepest namespace-confusion checks, listed in tests/test_dompurify.py::KNOWN_GAPS.

QS

from domonic_libs.qs import parse, stringify

state = parse("filters[status][]=open&filters[status][]=draft")
print(state)
print(stringify(state, {"arrayFormat": "brackets"}))

qs is useful when browser-style URL state needs to round-trip through nested Python dictionaries and arrays.

validator

from domonic_libs import validator

validator.isEmail("ada@example.com")            # True
validator.isIBAN("DE89370400440532013000")      # True (mod-97 checksum)
validator.isCreditCard("4111111111111111")      # True (Luhn)
validator.normalizeEmail("Foo.Bar+x@googlemail.com")  # 'foobar@gmail.com'

A file-by-file port of validator.js v13 -- ~90 string validators and sanitizers with the upstream camelCase names. Options are passed as a dict or as keyword arguments. It runs the valid / invalid case tables from validator.js's own test suite (tests/fixtures/validator/cases.json, 858 cases). Locale-table-heavy validators (isMobilePhone, isPostalCode, isTaxID, ...) and the full normalizeEmail provider lists are not ported yet.

Readability And Turndown

from domonic_libs.readability import Readability
from domonic_libs.turndown import turndown, TurndownService

article = Readability(html).parse()
markdown = turndown(article["content"])

# TurndownService mirrors turndown.js: options, .use(plugin), .addRule,
# .keep, .remove. Python option names are snake_case (heading_style="atx").
service = TurndownService(heading_style="atx", code_block_style="fenced")

from domonic_libs.turndown.gfm import gfm
service.use(gfm)  # tables, strikethrough, task lists (turndown-plugin-gfm port)

turndown is a file-for-file port of turndown.js and runs its upstream fixture suite (see tests/test_turndown.py). Together with Readability it is useful for content extraction, reader views, local archives, and LLM-friendly page summaries.

marked

from domonic_libs.marked import marked

marked("# Title\n\nSome **bold** text and a [link](https://x.io).")

A file-for-file port of marked v18 (Markdown to HTML) -- the inverse of turndown. It passes marked's own CommonMark 0.31.2 and GFM 0.29 conformance suites in full and 98% of marked's new/ regression specs (tests/test_marked.py), compared with the same html-differ semantics marked uses. Options mirror marked's (gfm, breaks, pedantic, silent, custom renderer); hooks, async, and third-party extensions are not ported. marked's \p{P}/\p{S} regex classes are baked from unicodedata, keeping the port dependency-free.

preact

from domonic.dom import document
from domonic_libs.preact import h, render, Component
from domonic_libs.preact.hooks import useState, useEffect

def Greeting(props):
    return h("h1", None, "Hello ", props["name"])

root = document.createElement("div")
render(h(Greeting, {"name": "world"}), root)
str(root)  # '<div><h1>Hello world</h1></div>'

A file-for-file port of Preact 10.29.8 -- create_element/h, the vnode-diffing reconciler (keyed children with the skew algorithm, Fragments, refs, dangerouslySetInnerHTML), the Component class with the full lifecycle, createContext, and preact/hooks (as domonic_libs.preact.hooks) -- running against domonic's server-side DOM instead of a browser. There is no JSX, so h is the authoring API and lifecycle names keep their upstream camelCase. Rendering is synchronous (Preact's microtask batching is replaced by a flush at the end of each render or event handler); Suspense and preact/compat are not ported. tests/test_preact.py ports a cross-section of Preact's browser suite (render, components, keys, fragments, refs, context, hooks) to unittest.

mermaid

from domonic_libs.mermaid import render

svg = render("""flowchart TD
    A[Parse text] --> B{Diagram type?}
    B -->|sequence / pie| C[Direct renderer]
    B -->|flowchart| D[dagre layout]
    C --> E[Emit SVG]
    D --> E
    E --> F((domonic tree))""")
# -> '<svg class="mermaid flowchart" viewBox="0 0 ..." ...>...</svg>'

A port of Mermaid (mermaid@11.9.0) that turns diagram text into a domonic SVG tree -- no mermaid.js bundle, no headless browser, no Graphviz binary. render(text) auto-detects the type; the CLI is dlx mermaid.

diagram	status
sequence	grammar + SequenceDB + renderer: participants (box and actor glyph), lifelines, the full arrow set, self-message curves, notes, activation bars, and the loop / alt / opt / par / critical / break / rect box machinery (nested boxes grow to enclose their contents). Gaps: box groups, autonumber badges, KaTeX, wrapping
pie	slices, percentages, legend, showData -- over domonic's d3.shape (pie/arc) and d3.scale
timeline	sections, periods, events, the activity line, wrapped node text
flowchart / graph	node shapes, the arrow zoo (labels, lengths, --x / --o), & groups, chains, subgraph; laid out by the bundled dagre port

The sequence / pie / timeline parsers are checked against mermaid's own spec assertions (tests/test_mermaid.py); the flowchart parser is a pragmatic scanner for the common flow.jison subset (mermaid's is ~630 lines of stateful lexer), tested against hand-written cases. Text is measured through domonic's real getBBox() -- a gap this port surfaced, since implemented in domonic 1.5.0. examples/mermaid_demo.py is a live workbench.

dagre

from domonic_libs.dagre import Graph, layout

g = Graph({"compound": True})
g.setGraph({"rankdir": "LR", "nodesep": 40, "ranksep": 60})
g.setDefaultEdgeLabel(lambda *a: {})
for v in "abc":
    g.setNode(v, {"width": 80, "height": 30})
g.setEdge("a", "b", {}); g.setEdge("a", "c", {})
layout(g)
g.node("b")            # {'x': ..., 'y': ..., 'rank': ..., ...}
g.edge("a", "b")["points"]

A faithful file-for-file port of dagre and the slice of graphlib it needs -- directed-graph hierarchical layout, no C or JS dependency. The whole pipeline is ported: greedy-FAS acyclic → Sander nesting graph → network-simplex rank → barycenter + Barth bilayer crossing minimisation → Brandes-Köpf x-coordinates → edge routing. Used by the Mermaid flowchart renderer, and usable on its own for any layered-graph drawing (dlx dagre takes an edge list). Per-cluster rankdir recursion is the one omission; tests/test_dagre.py does structural/invariant checks.

acorn

from domonic_libs.acorn import parse, generate, minify
from domonic_libs.acorn.jsx.transform import jsx_to_python
from domonic_libs.acorn.interpret import run_js

tree = parse("const f = x => x * 2", {"ecmaVersion": 2022})
tree.to_dict()      # {'type': 'Program', 'body': [{'type': 'VariableDeclaration', ...}], ...}
generate(tree)      # 'const f = x => x * 2;'   -- AST back to source
minify("app.js")    # read a file, return it whitespace-stripped

jsx_to_python("<div className='box'>{items}</div>")
# "div(items, _class='box')"

doc, log = run_js("const b = document.createElement('button');"
                  "b.textContent = 'Go'; document.body.appendChild(b);")
str(doc.body)  # '<body><button>Go</button></body>'

A faithful port of acorn 8.18.0 (tokenizer, the regexp.js grammar validator, the recursive-descent parser) plus the acorn-jsx plugin -- a pure-Python ECMAScript / JSX front end producing an ESTree tree. Its main job is stress-testing domonic.javascript; most of what it surfaced was fixed in domonic 1.6 and 1.7, and it keeps finding more (docs/javascript-wrinkles.md).

• generate is the third leg -- parse reads JS, interpret runs an AST, generate writes an AST back out (minify=True strips whitespace; indent= sets the pretty width). It round-trips: parse(generate(ast)) gives an equivalent tree, verified across the whole js262 + conformance corpus and real bundles (lodash, d3, vue, react, jquery, ...). On the CLI: dlx minify app.js -o app.min.js and dlx fmt -- a JavaScript minifier / formatter in pure Python, no Node.
• jsx_to_python rewrites the JSX markup layer to domonic.html factories (or h(...) with mode="h"), passing JS expressions inside { ... } through verbatim.
• interpret.run_js is a tree-walking evaluator for the practical subset of ECMAScript -- expressions, functions + closures, control flow, objects / arrays, this, new, class (with extends / super / fields), and the JS coercion rules. It runs against the whole domonic runtime: the global object exposes ~190 constructors auto-collected from domonic.javascript / domonic.webapi.* / domonic.dom (URL, Headers, Request / Response, Blob / FileReader, XMLHttpRequest, EventSource, Event / MouseEvent, MutationObserver / ResizeObserver / IntersectionObserver, Range / TreeWalker, DOMRect / DOMMatrix, XPathEvaluator, Path2D, FontFace, Notification, Worker, …), forwards to domonic's real window for the rest (location, navigator, atob, getComputedStyle, setTimeout), and reaches the element surface directly -- el.style / getComputedStyle (CSSOM in style.py), el.classList / el.dataset, el.addEventListener + dispatchEvent. console and document are isolated per run; document also forwards to a real backing Document (createComment, createEvent, evaluate, …). document.createElement(...).appendChild(...) builds a real Python object tree. There is a pragmatic event loop -- Promise, async / await, setTimeout -- with microtasks ahead of timers, and ES module import / export. Generators, ES5-style prototype chains (Foo.prototype.bar = ...), Symbol, and getter/setter accessors all work; not covered: Proxy, with. Running real DOM scripts this way is a live stress test of style.py, domonic.events, domonic.webapi, and the DOM.

Thrown errors carry a js_line and a js_trace (call stack), and the js_demo workbench surfaces both.

Nothing here is exported from import domonic_libs (it stays lean). examples/acorn_demo.py (JS → ESTree / tokens), examples/jsx_demo.py (JSX → domonic Python, live-rendered), and examples/js_demo.py (JS run against the DOM) are workbenches.

conformance

Three scorecards measure how close the JS + DOM layer is to spec, each a curated battery run end to end through the interpreter with a CI gate against a baseline:

• python -m domonic_libs.conformance — CSSOM / DOM assertions (el.style / CSSStyleDeclaration, classList, dataset, attribute reflection) modelled on Web Platform Tests → docs/conformance.md (50/50).
• python -m domonic_libs.js262 — a test262-style battery over language expressions / statements (closures, classes, generators, async/await, destructuring, modules) and the Array / String / Object / Number / Math / JSON / Promise / RegExp built-ins → docs/js-compliance.md (175/175, 100%).
• python -m domonic_libs.realworld — real, unmodified, live-fetched npm library bundles (lodash, d3, zod, katex, luxon, ...) run through the interpreter and smoke-tested, the other half of the same methodology: feed it something huge and popular that nobody wrote with this interpreter in mind, and see what breaks → docs/real-world.md.

A failing check is an interpreter gap or a domonic gap; the message says which, and docs/domonic-wrinkles.md / docs/javascript-wrinkles.md track the domonic ones.

myjs

myjs is a JavaScript interpreter packaged on top of the acorn port and its evaluator. It ships as its own PyPI distribution — pip install myjs (built from src/myjs/ via packaging/myjs/, released in lockstep with domonic-libs; see docs/publishing.md). myjs with no arguments starts a REPL; myjs script.js executes a file; myjs page.html renders an HTML page headlessly; myjs -e "<code>" evaluates a snippet.

import myjs

myjs.eval("1 + 2 * 3")                 # -> 7
myjs.run("script.js")

s = myjs.Session()                     # isolated global scope
s.eval("const x = 21;"); s.eval("x * 2")   # -> 42

# headless HTML: parse a page, run its <script>s against a real DOM, drive it
page = myjs.Page.load("https://example.com/")    # a URL (fetches HTML + CSS + JS) or a local file
page.eval("getComputedStyle(document.body).color")   # the fetched CSS, applied
page.fill("#search", "widgets").submit("#form")
page.wait_for(".result")
page.text(".result")                            # like Puppeteer, no browser
myjs.render("index.html", strip_scripts=True)   # -> rendered HTML string

Scripts get the whole domonic DOM (document, window, ~190 constructors), an event loop (Promise, async / await, setTimeout), ES modules (import / export, with bare specifiers resolving to Python modules), a WebSocket client, a set of host bindings -- fs, path, sh, http, an asynchronous fetch, os (Node-flavoured), process, say / notify / open, and py for reaching into the entire Python ecosystem (py.import("numpy")) -- plus an ffi global that calls native C libraries through Python's ctypes -- no node-gyp, no C compiler:

const libc = ffi.loadLibrary("c");
libc.abs.argtypes = [ffi.types.int];
libc.abs.restype  = ffi.types.int;
console.log(libc.abs(-42));            // 42

const buf = ffi.createStringBuffer(64);
libc.strcpy(buf, "written into C memory");
console.log(buf.value);

ffi.loadLibrary takes a short name ("c", "m"), a path (./libfoo.so), or a macOS framework name; ffi.createStringBuffer, ffi.callback (wrap a JS function as a C function pointer), ffi.cast / ffi.sizeof / ffi.string, and the ffi.types table cover the rest. Thrown errors surface as myjs.JSError with js_name / js_line / js_trace. myjs --gui app.js renders the DOM the script builds in a native window (needs [app]).

Runnable tours — myjs examples lists all of them (myjs examples <name> --run): wow.js (the whole surface), cockpit.js (a live control center — dashboard, killable/respawnable workers, raw keypresses), gpu.js (zero-copy: a live numpy buffer's raw pointer becomes GPU texture data directly), atoms.js (a real website's real physics, fetched live and rendered with raylib), hn.js (Hacker News front page, live API + Promise.all), sqlite.js (SQL via py.import("sqlite3")), words.js (fetch a book, word-frequency table), todo.js (a real CLI tool), chart.js (an SVG bar chart via the DOM API), async.js (event loop, concurrent Promise.all(fetch...)), realtime.js (WebSocket + setInterval), render.html (headless render), live.py (hit a real live website — fetch its HTML + CSS + JS and run it), automate.py / scrape.py (drive or scrape a page's JS from Python — Puppeteer without a browser), gui.js (--gui window), server.js (a web server in JS), ffi.js (native C). Full reference: docs/myjs.md.

App Wrapper

Install .[app] or .[examples] before using this part.

from domonic.events import Event
from domonic.html import button, h1, main

from domonic_libs import App, on


app = App("Hello")


def clicked(event):
    print(event.type)


@app.route("/")
def index():
    return main(h1("Hello"), on(button("Click me"), Event.CLICK, clicked))


app.run()

App is a thin bridge for domonic trees: routes return domonic HTML, callbacks receive domonic events, and examples can use OS file dialogs, menus, drag/drop, timers, storage, and transparent windows.

The render loop lives in a host-agnostic BaseApp. App is an alias for DesktopApp, which hosts it in a pywebview window. BrowserApp serves the same application to an ordinary browser over a small stdlib HTTP server -- the same route/handler code, no changes:

from domonic_libs.app import BrowserApp

app = BrowserApp("Hello")

@app.route("/")
def index():
    return main(h1("Hello"), on(button("Click me"), Event.CLICK, clicked))

app.run(port=8000)   # serves http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Only the transport differs (pywebview's js_api vs fetch) and the native host (menus, dialogs, native drag/drop paths are desktop-only). Because the browser has no server-to-client push, evaluate_js / refresh on BrowserApp queue a command that rides back on the next event or timer response.