et

A carefully designed and easy to use template engine for complex client side rendering, inspired by ejs.

{{if !users.length}}
  <span>no users</span>
{{else}}
  <span>we have {{= users.length}} users.</span>
  {{each users}}
    <li>{{= name}}</li>
  {{/}}
{{/}}

Inastall

npm install et-cli

Usage

var et = require("et-cli");
...
var html = et(template, data);

API

et(str, obj)

Render the given template str with obj.

et.compile(str, [options])

complie a reusable function with template str and optional options.

Syntax

• {{keyword expression}} for logic expression, expression is wrapped with () in the result javascript function.
• {{/}} indicate a close statement for statements with keywords each if and switch.

Here is the list of the keywords.

• each variable

for iteration an array, you can access each object property directly inside each expression, and variable i would be the index start from 0. Browser should support Array.prototype.forEach.

• if expression

could be ended by elif else or {{/}}.

• elif expression

should have an unclosed if before.

• else

should not contain any expression.

• switch variable

switch a variable, should be followed by case and default.

• case variable

a break statement is added in the of block output.

• default

For value output, you can use:

• {{= variable}} for ouput escaped variable.
• {{! variable}} for ouput unescaped variable.

Notice that null and undefined variables are rendered to empty string (not null and undefined).

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009-2014 qiming zhao [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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