CoffeeMugg

CoffeeMugg is a templating engine for node.js and browsers that lets you to write your HTML templates in 100% pure CoffeeScript.

CoffeeMugg is a branch of CoffeeKup. The main difference is that instead of local tag functions, tag functions are bound to this.

Why CoffeeMugg?

• First, a disclaimer: I can't vouch for the usefulness of this branch just yet.
• I believe this makes it easier to create libraries of view-helper routines, in the manner of RoR ActionView.
• CoffeeMugg is easier to grok than CoffeeKup, since it's straight up Javascript/Coffeescript without an intermediate compilation step, and local variables obey original Javascript/Coffeescript rules. If you want to create a template dynamically using function closures, why go ahead.
• There is no compilation step, so rendering on the client may be faster.

Sample

coffeemugg.render ->
  @div ->
    @p "I am a paragraph"

with subroutines:

# Create a new class with all the subroutines
MyContext = CMContext.extend({
  myroutine: ->
    @p 'blah blah'
})

# Create a rendering instance
context = new MyContext()
context.render ->
  @div ->
    @myroutine()

with arguments:

template = (div_id, contents) ->
  @div id: #div_id, ->
    for content in contents
      @div content

coffeemugg.render template, <OPTIONS>, "FRUITS", ["Apple", "Banana", "Raisin"]

Installation

npm install coffeemugg

More

Please take a look at the excellent CoffeeScript documentation for more information.

Special thanks

• Jeremy Ashkenas, for the amazing CoffeeScript language.
• Maurice Machado, for CoffeeKup. Hope you're OK with this.