grunt-lightweight-template-precompiler

Ultra lightweight js template precompiler. You can compile the template without the need of any runtime compilation library

Converts the following template

<!-- awesome-template.html -->
<div class="foo">
  <span class="bar">{value}</span>
</div>

into the following

(function() {
  window.JST = window.JST || {};
  
  JST['awesome-template'] = function(data) {
    return '<div class="foo">' + 
              '<span class="bar">' + data.value + '</span>' +
            '</div>';
  }
})()

which you can use as follows

var element = document.getElementById('some-element-id');

element.innerHTML = JST['awesome-template']({value: 'value'});

Why not use JADE or Handlebars or Mustache ?

Sometimes all you need is dynamic html content for smaller things. Templates like in the above example & you end writing those mini templates in javascript & the code becomes unreadable. Jade or Handlebars is kind of overkill for such small templates because even though you precompile them you still need to download their runtime libraries on the client side.

This precompiler tries to solve that problem, write those mini templates in html, precompile them using this grunt plugin & use it on client side without the need of any runtime template libraries.

P.S.: If you have many templates & are not smaller then better go for JADE or Handlebars or Mustache

By the way I need this while I was working on stackoverflow-card (I had only one template to compile).

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-lightweight-template-precompiler --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-lightweight-template-precompiler');

The "lightweight_template_precompiler" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named lightweight_template_precompiler to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  lightweight_template_precompiler: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.namespace

Type: String Default value: JST

A string value that is used to do namespace your compiled templates

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, all the precompiled templates
grunt.initConfig({
  lightweight_template_precompiler: {
    options: {},
    files: {
      'dist/templates.js': 'templates/some-template.html'
    },
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

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