Libraries / App Layout

App Layout

HTML layout generator used in our SPA applications.

@gravity-ui/app-layout · npm package CI

Install

npm install --save-dev @gravity-ui/app-layout

Usage

With express:

import express from 'express';
import {createRenderFunction} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const app = express();

const renderLayout = createRenderFunction();

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send(
    renderLayout({
      // RenderParams
      title: 'Home page',
      bodyContent: {
        root: 'Hello world!',
      },
    }),
  );
});

app.listen(3000);

where

interface RenderParams<Data, Plugins> {
  // Any json compatible data, will be set to window.__DATA__ on the page
  data?: Data;
  // favicon
  icon?: Icon;
  // nonce to be set on the appropriate tags
  nonce?: string;

  // common options
  // Page title
  title: string;
  // language of page, will be set to html tag
  lang?: string;
  isMobile?: boolean;

  // html attributes
  htmlAttributes?: string;
  // header tag content
  // meta tags
  meta?: Meta[];
  // link tags
  links?: Link[];
  // script tags
  scripts?: Script[];
  // style tags
  styleSheets?: Stylesheet[];
  // script tags with inlined code
  inlineScripts?: string[];
  // style tags with inlined styles
  inlineStyleSheets?: string[];

  // content of body tag
  bodyContent?: {
    // class name for body tag
    className?: string;
    // body attributes
    attributes?: string;
    // body content before div tag with id root
    beforeRoot?: string;
    // innerHtml content of div tag with id root
    root?: string;
    // body content after div tag with id root
    afterRoot?: string;
  };
  // plugins options
  pluginsOptions?: Partial<PluginsOptions<Plugins>>;
}

Meta

Describes meta tag:

interface Meta {
  name: string;
  content: string;
}

Example:

const meta = [
  {name: 'description', content: 'some text'},
  {name: 'robots', content: 'noindex'},
  {name: 'og:title', content: 'Some title'},
];

Will be rendered as:

<meta name="description" content="some text" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
<meta property="og:title" content="Some title" />

Icon

Describes page favicon:

interface Icon {
  type?: string;
  sizes?: string;
  href?: string;
}

Default value is:

const icon = {
  type: 'image/png',
  sizes: '16x16',
  href: '/favicon.png',
};

Describes link tag:

interface Link {
  as?: string;
  href: string;
  rel?: string;
  type?: string;
  sizes?: string;
  title?: HTMLLinkElement['title'];
  crossOrigin?: '' | 'anonymous' | 'use-credentials';
}

Example:

const link = {
  href: 'myFont.woff2',
  rel: 'preload',
  as: 'font',
  type: 'font/woff2',
  crossOrigin: 'anonymous',
};

will be rendered as:

<link href="myFont.woff2" rel="preload" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous" />

Scripts

Describes link to script with preload:

interface Script {
  src: string;
  defer?: boolean;
  async?: boolean;
  crossOrigin?: '' | 'anonymous' | 'use-credentials';
  type?: 'importmap' | 'module' | string;
}

Example:

const script = {
  src: 'url/to/script',
  defer: true,
  async: false,
  crossOrigin: 'anonymous',
};

will be rendered as:

<link href="url/to/script" rel="preload" as="script" crossorigin="anonymous" />

<script src="url/to/script" defer="true" async="false" crossorigin="anonymous" nonce="..."></script>

Style sheets

Describe link to styles:

interface Stylesheet {
  href: string;
}

Example:

const styleSheet = {
  href: 'url/to/stylesheet',
};

will be rendered as:

<link href="url/to/stylesheet" rel="stylesheet" />

Plugins

Render function can be extended by plugins. Plugin may rewrite user defined render content. Plugin is an object with name and apply properties:

interface Plugin<Options = any, Name = string> {
  name: Name;
  apply: (params: {
    options: Options | undefined; // passed through `renderLayout` function in `pluginsOptions` parameter.
    commonOptions: CommonOptions;
    renderContent: RenderContent;
    /** @deprecated use `renderContent.helpers` instead */
    utils: RenderHelpers;
  }) => void;
}

interface CommonOptions {
  name: string;
  title: string;
  lang?: string;
  isMobile?: boolean;
}

export interface HeadContent {
  scripts: Script[];
  helpers: RenderHelpers;
  links: Link[];
  meta: Meta[];
  styleSheets: Stylesheet[];
  inlineStyleSheets: string[];
  inlineScripts: string[];
  title: string;
}

export interface BodyContent {
  attributes: Attributes;
  beforeRoot: string[];
  root?: string;
  afterRoot: string[];
}

export interface RenderContent extends HeadContent {
  htmlAttributes: Attributes;
  bodyContent: BodyContent;
}

export interface RenderHelpers {
  renderScript(script: Script): string;
  renderInlineScript(content: string): string;
  renderStyle(style: Stylesheet): string;
  renderInlineStyle(content: string): string;
  renderMeta(meta: Meta): string;
  renderLink(link: Link): string;
  attrs(obj: Attributes): string;
}

There are some plugins in this package:

Google analytics

Adds google analytics counter on the page.

Usage:

import {createRenderFunction, createGoogleAnalyticsPlugin} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const renderLayout = createRenderFunction([createGoogleAnalyticsPlugin()]);

app.get((req, res) => {
  res.send(
    renderLayout({
      title: 'Home page',
      pluginsOptions: {
        googleAnalytics: {
          useBeaconTransport: true, // enables use of navigator.sendBeacon
          counter: {
            id: 'some id',
          },
        },
      },
    }),
  );
});

Plugin options:

interface GoogleAnalyticsCounter {
  id: string;
}

interface GoogleAnalyticsOptions {
  useBeaconTransport?: boolean;
  counter: GoogleAnalyticsCounter;
}

Yandex Metrika

Adds Yandex metrics counters on the page.

Usage:

import {createRenderFunction, createYandexMetrikaPlugin} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const renderLayout = createRenderFunction([createYandexMetrikaPlugin()]);

app.get((req, res) => {
  res.send(
    renderLayout({
      title: 'Home page',
      pluginsOptions: {
        yandexMetrika: {
          counter: {
            id: 123123123,
            defer: true,
            clickmap: true,
            trackLinks: true,
            accurateTrackBounce: true,
          },
        },
      },
    }),
  );
});

Plugin options:

export type UserParams = {
  [x: string]: boolean | string | number | null | UserParams;
};

export interface MetrikaCounter {
  id: number;
  defer: boolean;
  clickmap: boolean;
  trackLinks: boolean;
  accurateTrackBounce: boolean | number;
  webvisor?: boolean;
  nonce?: string;
  encryptedExperiments?: string;
  triggerEvent?: boolean;
  trackHash?: boolean;
  ecommerce?: boolean | string;
  type?: number;
  userParams?: UserParams;
}

export type MetrikaOptions = {
  src?: string;
  counter: MetrikaCounter | MetrikaCounter[];
};

Layout

Adds script and styles from webpack assets manifest file.

Usage:

import {createRenderFunction, createLayoutPlugin} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const renderLayout = createRenderFunction([
  createLayoutPlugin({manifest: 'path/to/assets-manifest.json', publicPath: '/build/'}),
]);

app.get((req, res) => {
  res.send(
    renderLayout({
      title: 'Home page',
      pluginsOptions: {
        layout: {
          name: 'home',
        },
      },
    }),
  );
});

Plugin options:

export interface LayoutOptions {
  name: string;
  prefix?: string;
}

@gravity-ui/uikit

Adds body attributes.

Usage:

import {createRenderFunction, createUikitPlugin} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const renderLayout = createRenderFunction([createUikitPlugin()]);

app.get((req, res) => {
  res.send(
    renderLayout({
      title: 'Home page',
      pluginsOptions: {
        uikit: {
          theme: 'dark',
          direction: 'ltr',
        },
      },
    }),
  );
});

Plugin options:

interface UikitPluginOptions {
  theme: string;
  direction?: 'ltr' | 'rtl';
}

Remote Versions

Adds microfrontend versions information to the page.

This plugin creates a global window.__REMOTE_VERSIONS__ object containing the provided microfrontend versions, which can be used by module federation or similar microfrontend architectures to determine which versions of remote modules to load.

It can be used in combination with App Builder and the moduleFederation.remotesRuntimeVersioning option to automatically load remote modules with the corresponding versions.

Usage:

import {createRenderFunction, createRemoteVersionsPlugin} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const renderLayout = createRenderFunction([createRemoteVersionsPlugin()]);

app.get((req, res) => {
  res.send(
    renderLayout({
      title: 'Home page',
      pluginsOptions: {
        remoteVersions: {
          header: '1.2.3',
          footer: '2.1.0',
          sidebar: '0.5.1',
        },
      },
    }),
  );
});

Plugin options:

type RemoteVersionsPluginOptions = Record<string, string>;

Helpers

There is helper to create all plugins:

import {createMiddleware, createDefaultPlugins} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const renderLayout = createRenderFunction(
    createDefaultPlugins({layout: {manifest: 'path/to/assets-manifest.json'}})
);

app.get((req, res) => {
    res.send(renderLayout({
        title: 'Home page',
        pluginsOptions: {
            layout: {
                name: 'home'
            },
            googleAnalytics: {
                counter: {...}
            },
            yandexMetrika: {
                counter: {...}
            },
        },
    }));
})

Alternative usage

With parts renderers generateRenderContent, renderHeadContent, renderBodyContent via html streaming:

import express from 'express';
import htmlescape from 'htmlescape';
import {
  generateRenderContent,
  renderHeadContent,
  renderBodyContent,
  createDefaultPlugins,
} from '@gravity-ui/app-layout';

const app = express();

app.get('/', async function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {
    'Content-Type': 'text/html',
    'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked',
  });

  const plugins = createDefaultPlugins({layout: {manifest: 'path/to/assets-manifest.json'}});

  const content = generateRenderContent(plugins, {
    title: 'Home page',
  });

  const {htmlAttributes, helpers, bodyContent} = content;

  res.write(`
        <!DOCTYPE html>
        <html ${helpers.attrs({...htmlAttributes})}>
        <head>
            ${renderHeadContent(content)}
        </head>
        <body ${helpers.attrs(bodyContent.attributes)}>
            ${renderBodyContent(content)}
    `);

  const data = await getUserData();

  res.write(`
            ${content.renderHelpers.renderInlineScript(`
                window.__DATA__ = ${htmlescape(data)};
            `)}
        </body>
        </html>
    `);
  res.end();
});

app.listen(3000);
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Version
2.3.0
Last update
22.08.2025
Repository
github.com/gravity-ui/app-layout
License
MIT License
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