What is “.el” in relationship to JavaScript/HTML/jQuery?

Question

I couldn\'t find much from Googling, but I\'m probably Googling the wrong terms.

I\'m trying to understand what the \"el\" in \"$.el\" is from here: http://joestelmach.g

Answer 1

It creates a tree of elements and appends them to body

Answer 2

el is just an identifier and it refers to an element, a DOM element, which is a convention in that library.

Answer 3

el is a function that's been placed on the $ object, and can be invoked to generate DOM elements:

$.el('table')

el also acts as a placeholder for other objects, like the table function:

$.el.table()

Answer 4

You can obtain the explanation seeing the source of the project in the github:

// If we're in a CommonJS environment, we export our laconic methods
  if(typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) {
    module.exports = laconic;
  } 

  // otherwise, we attach them to the top level $.el namespace
  else {
    var dollar = context.$ || {};
    dollar.el = laconic;
    context.$ = dollar;
  }

The code means that $.el namespace will have the function laconic() and this function create elements using document.createElement and append to the body.