High performance JavaScript Haml implementation for nodejs
For a higher quality implementation you may want to look at my Jade template engine, however the syntax is slightly different. Jade's engine may be back-ported to haml.js in the future.
Install the Kiwi package manager for nodejs and run:
$ kiwi install haml
node> require('haml')
Or npm:
$ npm install hamljs
node> require('hamljs')
Benchmarks rendering the same 21 line haml file located at benchmarks/page.haml, shows that this library is nearly 65% or 3 times faster than haml-js.
Winner: haml.js
Compared with next highest (haml-js), it's:
65.39% faster
2.89 times as fast
0 order(s) of magnitude faster
Haml.js attempts to comply with the original Haml implementation as well as possible. There are no magic "plugins" like found in other JavaScript haml implementations, for example the following will work just fine:
- if (items)
%ul
- for (var i = 0; i < items.length; ++i)
%li= items[i]
Iteration is the one exception to these magical plugins, since this is ugly in JavaScript, you may also:
- if (items)
%ul
- each item in items
%li= item
var haml = require('haml')
haml.render('a string of haml', { a: 'hash', of: 'options' })
- context
- when passed the value of "this" becomes the given "context" object
- locals
- when passed all members of this object become available to this template
- filename
- required when cache is enabled
- cache
- compiled intermediate javascript is cached in memory keyed by filename
%div text
html:
<div>text</div>
%div.article.first
article text here
and here
html:
<div class="article first">
article text here and here
</div>
.comment hey
html:
<div class="comment">hey</div>
#article-1 foo
html:
<div id="article-1">foo</div>
You may chain id and classes in any order:
.article#first.summary content
html:
<div id="first" class="article summary">context</div>
%a{ href: 'http://google.com', title: 'Google It' } Google
html:
<a href="http://google.com" title="Google It">Google</a>
Attribute keys such as "for" are automatically quoted by haml.js, so instead of:
%label{ 'for': 'something' }
you should:
%label{ for: 'something' }
which will render:
<label for="something"></label>
%input{ type: 'checkbox', checked: true }
html:
<input type="checkbox" checked="checked"/>
Wemay also contain id and classes before or after:
%a.button{ href: 'http://google.com', title: 'Google It' }.first Google
html:
<a href="http://google.com" title="Google It" class="button first">Google</a>
Code starting with a hyphen will be executed but not buffered, where as code using the equals sign will be buffered:
- a = 1
- b = 2
= a + b
html:
3
HTML buffered with equals sign will always be escaped:
= "<br/>"
html:
<br/>
To prevent escaping of HTML entities we can use !=:
!= "<br/>"
html:
<br/>
%ul
- each item in items
%li= item
html:
<ul>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
</ul>
If you require the key or index of the object or array during iteration simple append a comma following another id:
%ul
- each item, index in items
%li= item + '(' + index + ')'
html:
<ul>
<li>one(0)</li>
<li>two(1)</li>
<li>three(2)</li>
</ul>
Defaults to transitional:
!!!
html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Optionally pass a supported doctype name:
!!! strict
html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
currently supported doctypes, which can be extended simply by adding values to to haml.doctypes.
'5': '<!DOCTYPE html>',
'xml': '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>',
'default': '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">',
'strict': '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">',
'frameset': '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">',
'1.1': '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">',
'basic': '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd">',
'mobile': '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN" "http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile12.dtd">'
%script
:cdata
foo
html:
<script><![CDATA[
foo
]]></script>
%head
:javascript
if (foo)
if (bar)
alert('baz')
html:
<head>
<script type="javascript">
//<![CDATA[
if (foo)
if (bar)
alert('baz')
//]]>
</script>
</head>
var haml = require('haml')
haml.filters.my_filter = function(str) {
return doSomethingWith(str)
}
by registering the filter function my_filter we can now utilize it within our Haml templates as shown below: %p :my_filter some text here yay whoop awesome
var haml = require('haml')
haml.doctypes.foo = '<!DOCTYPE ... >'
Will now allow you to: !!! foo
To run benchmarks against haml-js simply execute:
$ git submodule update --init
$ node benchmarks/run.js
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