scriban

Scriban is a fast, powerful and lightweight text templating language and engine for .NET

var template = Template.Parse("Hello {{name}}!")
template.Render(new { name = "foo" }); // => "hi foo!" 

Features

Scriban is similar to liquid or handlebars but provides additional support for:

• Real Lexer/Parser providing a full Abstract Syntax Tree, fast, versatile and robust, more efficient than a regex based parser.
• Precise control of whitespace text output
• Full featured expressions (x = 1 + 2)
• function call and pipes (myvar | string.capitalize)
• Complex objects (javascript/json like objects x = {mymember: 1}) and arrays (e.g x = [1,2,3,4])
• Custom functions via func statement and allow function pointers/delegates via the alias @ directive
• Allow to pass a block of statements to a function, typically used by the wrap statement
• Several builtins objects/functions:
  • arrays functions
  • maths functions
  • string functions
  • regex functions
  • date/time
• Multi-line statements without having to embrace each line by {{...}}
• Safe language and runtime, allowing you to control what objects and functions are exposed

Documentation

• See the Language for a description of the language syntax and the built-in functions
• See the Runtime for the a description of the runtime API.

Binaries

Compatible with the following .NET framework profiles:

• .NET3.5
• .NET4.0+ via the PCL profile portable40-net40+sl5+win8+wp8+wpa81
• NetStandard1.1 running on CoreCLR

License

This software is released under the BSD-Clause 2 license.

Related projects

• dotliquid: .NET port of the liquid templating engine by @tgjones
• Handlebars.Net: .NET port of handlebars.js by @rexm

Author

Alexandre Mutel aka xoofx.