Asynchronous templates for the browser and node.js
dust.js has been modified to fit a little better with how I (benno) use it with node. Specifically, with the existing approach the cache was a module global mutable data structure. This isn't ideal as it forces a single global namespace for template names, which I did not want to do.
To avoid massive restructuring the dust module now provides a single (quite expensive) create function call. This can be used to effectively create multiple dust instances, and therefore isolated template namespaces.
The object returned by create provides all the methods and functionality normally available from the dust module.
I like Mustache and variants but none of them offers quite what I need.
Use Dust if you want these things:
- async/streaming operation
- browser/node compatibility
- extended Mustache/ctemplate syntax
- clean, low-level API
- high performance
- composable templates
{^xhr}
{>base_template/}
{:else}
{+main/}
{/xhr}
{<title}
Child Title
{/title}
{<main}
Child Content
{/main}
In Node:
$ npm install dust
To render compiled templates in the browser:
<script src="dust-core-0.3.0.min.js"></script>
Extensive docs and a full demo are available at http://akdubya.github.com/dustjs