For template processing using javascript (with jquery) on the server side or the client side. Using json as the data.

Uses nodejs for the javascript interpreter, and jquery for the template language, along with jsdom and node-htmlparser for the DOM and html parsing/serialising.

Still alpha prototype software.

This is still alpha software, not to be used in production.

Why is this useful?

• No need for a server to process the templates. Either process them server side or client side.
• Data can be stored in a json file. No need for a database for testing. Just create json files in a text file.
• Can reuse knowledge of javascript libraries (like jquery), rather than learning one of 798394 different templating languages.
• Can keep one html file which front end web developers can edit without them needing a new template file.

A couple of blog posts about it.

• http://renesd.blogspot.com/2007/08/javascript-for-templates-its-happening.html
• http://renesd.blogspot.com/2010/05/you-are-using-wrong-templating-system.html

How to run.

Look at index.html in your browser, to process client side.

To process the data on the server side:

node run.js ./ server.json index.html jquery.js yourServerSide.js yourServerSide2.js > processed_index.html

To run as a server:

node run.js --server

Open your browser to:

http://localhost:8124/?basePath=./&serverJson=server.json&serverJs=jquery.js,,,yourServerSide.js,,,yourServerSide2.js&templateUrl=index.html

• yourServerSide.js and yourServerSide2.js are where your server side code goes.
• client.json is given to your function in yourServerSide on the client side.
• server.json is given to server side version of the function. It appears in window._jsonData.

Dependencies.

requires jsdom and node-htmlparser

git clone http://github.com/tautologistics/node-htmlparser.git

git clone http://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom.git

mkdir -p ~/.node_libraries/

mkdir -p ~/.node_libraries/node-htmlparser

cp -a node-htmlparser/lib/node-htmlparser.js ~/.node_libraries/node-htmlparser

cp -a jsdom/lib/jsdom ~/.node_libraries/

• ~/.node_libraries/node-htmlparser/node-htmlparser
• ~/.node_libraries/jsdom