dictator-datastar

WASM decree for Dictator that lints Datastar HTML attributes.

Rules

Rule	Description
`datastar/no-alpine-vue-attrs`	Disallows Alpine.js/Vue.js style attributes (`x-`, `v-`, `@`, `:`)
`datastar/require-value`	Requires values for expression-based attributes
`datastar/for-template`	Requires `data-for` on `<template>` elements
`datastar/typo`	Detects common typos (`data-intersects` → `data-on-intersect`)
`datastar/invalid-modifier`	Validates modifier syntax (`__debounce.500ms`, `__once`)
`datastar/action-syntax`	Validates `@get()`, `@post()` SSE action syntax

Examples

Valid Datastar

<div data-signals:count="0"
     data-show="$count > 0"
     data-on:click="$count++">
  Count: <span data-text="$count"></span>
</div>

<button data-on:click__debounce.300ms="@post('/submit')">
  Submit
</button>

<template data-for="item in $items">
  <li data-text="$item.name"></li>
</template>

Violations

<!-- datastar/no-alpine-vue-attrs -->
<div x-show="visible">        <!-- Use data-show -->
<div @click="handle()">       <!-- Use data-on:click -->

<!-- datastar/typo -->
<div data-intersects="...">   <!-- Use data-on-intersect -->
<div data-on-click="...">     <!-- Use data-on:click (colon, not hyphen) -->

<!-- datastar/for-template -->
<div data-for="item in $items">  <!-- Must be on <template> -->

<!-- datastar/action-syntax -->
<button data-on:click="@get">    <!-- Missing parentheses: @get('/path') -->
<button data-on:click="@get()">  <!-- Empty URL not allowed -->

<!-- datastar/invalid-modifier -->
<div data-on:click__unknown="...">  <!-- Unknown modifier -->

Attribute Order

This decree does not enforce attribute ordering. Datastar processes attributes in DOM order, and the order is semantic (dependency-based), not stylistic. For example:

<!-- Signal must be defined before it's used -->
<div data-signals:foo="1" data-show="$foo">  <!-- Correct -->
<div data-show="$foo" data-signals:foo="1">  <!-- Also valid if foo exists elsewhere -->

The correct order depends on your specific use case and signal dependencies.

Building

Requires Rust with wasm32-wasip2 target:

rustup target add wasm32-wasip2
cargo build --release --target wasm32-wasip2
cp target/wasm32-wasip2/release/dictator_datastar.wasm dist/dictator-datastar.component.wasm

Testing

cargo test

Configuration

All rules are enabled by default. The decree uses DatastarConfig internally:

DatastarConfig {
    check_alpine_vue: true,
    check_required_values: true,
    check_typos: true,
    check_modifiers: true,
    check_actions: true,
    check_for_template: true,
}

Supported Modifiers

Event modifiers (`data-on:*`)

__once, __passive, __capture, __debounce, __throttle, __delay, __window, __outside, __prevent, __stop, __viewtransition

Intersect modifiers (`data-on-intersect`)

__once, __half, __full, __threshold

Persist modifiers (`data-persist`)

__session

Init modifiers (`data-init`)

__delay, __viewtransition

Case modifiers (many attributes)

__case.camel, __case.kebab, __case.snake, __case.pascal

License

MIT

dictator-datastar 0.1.0