Taxiderm

[Jackalop]

Takes the skins from your frontend and pumps them full of sawdust. Creates life-like webapps which can easily be:

• worked on for CSS tweaks in hard to reach places
• share links with localization community, so they can preview their work

Usage:

Create a .taxiderm file in your project which maps preview urls, for each template you provide enough data so it will render with out blowing up. You may present the same template with several different sets of data. Sane defaults remove the need for supplying everything.

Example .taxiderm

{
  "staticRoot": "static",
  "templateRoot": "server/views",
  "globalVars": {
    "csrf_token": "asdf978sd09f8ds",
    "browserid_server": "",
    "dev_mode": false,
    "lang": "en-US",
    "lang_dir": "",
    "gettext": "(function(a){return a})",
    "format": "(function(a){return a})",
    "cachify_js": "(function(a){return '<script src=\"https://dev.bigtent.mozilla.org' + a + '\"></script>'})",
    "cachify_css": "(function(a){return '<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://dev.bigtent.mozilla.org' + a + '\" />'})"
  },
  "screens": [
    { "template": "id_mismatch.ejs",
      "linkTitle": "ID Mismatch Error",
      "variables": {
        "claimed": "alice@yahoo.com",
        "mismatched": "alice@yahoo.co.uk",
        "provider": "Yahoo",
        "providerURL": "https://mail.yahoo.com"
      }
    },
    { "template": "authentication.ejs",
      "linkTitle": "Progress Screen",
      "variables": {
        "provider": "Yahoo",
        "providerURL": "https://mail.yahoo.com"
      }
    }
  ]
}

templateRoot defaults to views. It is calculated relative to the .taxiderm file or the current working directory when taxiderm is run.

The id_mismatch.ejs top level key is a tempalte file name. taxiderm will load this template and render it with the provided data. ID Mismatch Error is the link name which will be avialble from the taxiderm app. It allows you to have multiple different links and datasets for the same template, which is useful for previewing conditional logic.