express-dustjs

A Dustjs middleware for Express.

Installation

npm install express-dustjs

Usage

var express = require('express')
var app = express()
var path = require('path')

var dust = require('express-dustjs')

// Dustjs settings
dust._.optimizers.format = function (ctx, node) {
  return node
}

// Define custom Dustjs helper
dust._.helpers.demo = function (chk, ctx, bodies, params) {
  return chk.w('demo')
}

// Use Dustjs as Express view engine
app.engine('dust', dust.engine({
  // Use dustjs-helpers
  useHelpers: true
}))
app.set('view engine', 'dust')
app.set('views', path.resolve(__dirname, './views'))

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  // Render template with locals
  res.render('index', {
    title: 'Hello world',
    name: 'Joe',
    sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog',
    number: req.query.number || 0
  })
})

API

_

A reference of Dustjs instance. You can use it to change Dustjs settings or define helper / filter.

dust._.helpers.demo = demo

bind()

By default, express-dustjs will use dustjs-linkedin (^2.5.1) to render template, if you want to use another version of dustjs, do like this:

var dust = require('express-dustjs')
dust.bind(otherDust)
// Equals to
var dust = require('express-dustjs')(otherDust)

engine()

Create a tempalte engine middleware for Express.

app.engine('dust', dust.engine({
  useHelpers: true
}))
app.set('view engine', 'dust')

Options:

• useHelpers: if true, will load [dustjs-helpers] (^1.5.0).

Compatibility

• Node >= 0.10
• Express >= 4.10.

Contributors

Via GitHub