velocity

A node velocity template engine.

Node 版 velocity 模板引擎。

Differ from Java edition

Bug and suggestion

Change log

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0. Features

• Full implement of velocity syntax.
• View template dependencies.
• Extract data structure from templates.
• Generate intermediate template to dump the context.

1. Installment

$ npm install velocity -g

2. Quick Start

Some examples are ready for you:

$ git clone https://github.com/fool2fish/velocity.git
$ cd examples

Try a simple one

Command:

$ cd hello
$ velocity

Output:

Hello, velocity!

More examples

• Diagnose error
• Method lookup
• View dependencies
• Extract data structure from template
• Generate intermediate template to dump the context

See all examples.

3. Use In Modules

Render a template

var Engine = require('velocity').Engine
var engine = new Engine( {{options}} )
var result = engine.render( {{context}} )
console.log(result)

Get the AST

var parser = require('velocity').parser
var content = fs.readFileSync( {{path/to/template}} , {encoding: {{encoding}})
var ast = parser.parse(content)
console.log(ast)

Extract data structure from template and save to file

var Data = require('velocity').Data
var data = new Data({
  output: 'path/save/data/structure',
  ...
})
var reselt = data.extract({{optionalExistedContext}})

4. Options

All options are very simple, you can view them in terminal:

$ velocity -h

Option config specifies a config file path. All examples have a config file.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 fool2fish fool2fish@gmail.com and other contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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