Yet another template engine, it can be used as an alternative solution of JSX.
It's inspired by Pug and JSX to provide more clean and flexible syntax.
- Indent based language - Smaller than XML-like language
- Simple and Flexible syntax - Few semantics and Control-Flow Statements
- Babel plugin to compile to JavaScript
- VSCode extension
- Syntax Highlighting
- Integrates with language server
The XML-like syntax such as JSX, although is easy to understand but can not be directly parsed by eyes, we still need the code formatters and syntax highlighters to enhance the development experience.
The nature of this problem is that if the XML-like syntax is well-formatted, those <, > and closing tags are verbose, keep them in code just slow down our eye-parsing. July prefers to use the Pug like syntax to express the tags and their hierarchical structures, because the syntax removes the verbose items therefore brings more clear vision, besides, it uses indents to express the hierarchical structures, this also force the code is always well-formatted.
JSX does not include the for and if statements, despite there maybe deep meaning behind this behavior, control flows are flexible and useful at sometimes. July provides them out-of-box.
It's in development, stay tuned. Early viewing