appolo view module

Installation

the view engine must be installed in package.json in the example npm i nunjucks.

npm i @appolo/view
npm i nunjucks

Options

| key | Description | Type | Default | --- | --- | --- | --- | | viewFolder | view folder to search the view paths | string| views| | viewCache | cache the compiled views | boolean | true | | viewExt | views files extension | string | html | | viewEngine | the view engine to be used from list| string | nunjucks | | maxPathCache | max number of cached view paths | number | 1000 |

in config/modules/all.ts

import {App} from 'appolo';
import {ViewModule,ViewEngines} from '@appolo/view';

export = async function (app:App) {

    await app.module(new ViewModule({
        viewEngine:ViewEngines.nunjucks
    });
}

Usage

now you can use the res.render function in the controller

import {controller, inject, IResponse, get, StaticController} from 'appolo';

@controller()
export class ViewController extends StaticController {

    @get("/test/view")
    async someView(req, res: IResponse, route) {
        await res.render("path to view", {test: req.query.test}
    }
}

if the path is not defined the view will be searched in the same folder as the controller and file name as the action in the example below it will search for view2.html

import {controller, inject, IResponse, get, StaticController} from 'appolo';

@controller()
export class ViewController extends StaticController {

    @get("/test/view2")
    async view2(req, res: IResponse, route) {
        await res.render( {test: req.query.test}
    }
}

the view can be rendered with view decorator

import {controller, inject, IResponse, get, StaticController} from 'appolo';
import {view} from '@appolo/view';


@controller()
export class ViewController extends StaticController {

    @get("/test/view2")
    @view("some path")
    view(req, res: IResponse, route) {
       return {test: req.query.test}
    }
}

promises also supported

import {controller, inject, IResponse, get, StaticController} from 'appolo';
import {view} from '@appolo/view';

@controller()
export class ViewController extends StaticController {

    @get("/test/view2")
    @view()
    async view(req, res: IResponse, route) {
       let result  = await doSomeThingAsync();
       return result
    }
}