Creating UI

Instances are created using create().

create() returns a constructor for a class which then takes a table of properties to assign when creating a new instance for that class.

Luau allows us to omit parentheses () when calling functions with string or table literals which Vide takes advantage of for brevity.

local mount = vide.mount
local create = vide.create

local function App()
    return create "ScreenGui" {
        create "Frame" {
            AnchorPoint = Vector2.new(0.5, 0.5),
            Position = UDim2.fromScale(0.5, 0.5),
            Size = UDim2.fromScale(0.4, 0.7),

            create "TextLabel" {
                Text = "hi"
            },

            create "TextLabel" {
                Text = "bye"
            },

            create "TextButton" {
                Text = "click me",

                Activated = function()
                    print "clicked!"
                end
            }
        }
    }
end

mount(App, game.StarterGui)

Assign a value to a string key to set a property, and assign a value to a number key to set a child. Events can be connected to by assigning a function to a string key.

You can also use a shorthand to create datatypes instead of explicitly typing out the class name and constructor. The table will be unpacked into the .new() constructor of the property's type.

create "Frame" {
    AnchorPoint = { 0.5, 1 },
    UDim2 = { 0.5, 0, 0.5, 0 }
}

When creating an instance with no properties, it is important to not forget to actually call the constructor: create "Frame" {} and not create "Frame". To be clear, create "Frame" returns a function which is a constructor for that class, not an instance of that class. This would result in you attempting to parent a function instead of an instance which is not the correct behavior.

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