This is a port of jQuery's Template Engine to nodejs

http://github.com/jquery/jquery-tmpl

Philosophy is similar to django

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/

• no program logic in templates
• no embeded script language like in ejs
  1. this is evil because it enables program logic in templates
  2. bad usability
  3. because of the "var" problem in javascript - very very evil
• extendable - you can implement new statements

Features

• html escaping per default
• simple syntax
• NO PROGRAM LOGIC :)
• extendable :)
• tiny and fast
• jquery conform in the future

Usage

require the module

var jqtpl = require( "jqtpl" );

Want to use it with Express? app.set( "view engine", "html" ); app.register( ".html", require( "jqtpl" ) );

Simple output (escaped per default)

Template

<div>${a}</div>

Code

jqtpl.render( tpl, {a:123});

Output

<div>123</div>

Simple output but with array as data argument (escaped per default)

Template

<div>${a}</div>

Code

jqtpl.render( tpl, [{a:1},{a:2},{a:3}]);

Output

<div>1</div><div>2</div><div>3</div>

If property is a function - it will be called automatically (escaped per default)

Template

<div>${a}</div>

Code

jqtpl.render( tpl, {
    a:function() {
        return 1 + 5;
    }
});

Output

<div>6</div>

"if" statement

Template

{{if a == 6}}
    <div>${a}</div>
{{else}}
    <div>a is not 6</div>    
{{/if}}

Code

jqtpl.render( tpl, {a:6});

Output

<div>6</div>

Code

jqtpl.render( tpl, {a:5});

Output

<div>a is not 6</div>

"each" statement

Template

{{each(i, name) names}}
    <div>${i}.${name}</div>
{{/each}}        

Code

jqtpl.render( tpl, {names: ["A", "B"]});

Output

<div>0.A</div><div>1.B</div>

There is a way to avoid escaping if you know what you do :)

Template

<div>{{html a}}</div>

Code

jqtpl.render( tpl, {a:'<div id="123">2</div>'});

Output

<div id="123">2</div>    

Run tests

$ node test/test.js

Installation

npm install jqtpl