handlebars-ex

Simple handlebars-like parser.

Actually this is just a PEGjs grammar that auto-generates a parser to recognize Handlebars.js-like

Overview

This project born as a necessity of the project blueHTML to be more modular and allow re-use the recognition of handlebarsjs templates.

API & Example

Installation

npm install handlebars-ex

Example

var handlebarsX = require('handlebars-ex');

var ast = handlebarsX.parse('<div>{{#if cond}}<hr/> {{/if}}</div>');

Tests

All test are written in Jasmine. To run them:

npm test

Limitation

It is important to notice that NOT ALL handlebars templates are valid handlebars-ex templates.

The grammar used here is not the same used by Handlebars. With Handlebars you are able to generate ANY template; C#, JavaScript, HTML or simple Plain Text. This is not the case of handlebars-ex. Here we only accept/recognize a subset of HTML-Handlebars templates.

This means based on the current grammar, there are templates that WONT be recognized. Grammar limitations:

• Variable tag name are not supported. Sample:

<{{tagName}}> some content here </{{tagName}}>

• XML Structure is mandatory for non void tags. This means that you CANNOT conditionally (inside a IF condition) close a tag. Besides, as a consequence of the previous all open tag must have a closing tag. None child tag is allowed to close or add context outside the closing parent tag. Samples:

<!-- Invalid Tags structure -->
<div> {{#if condition}}   </div> {{else}} <p>...</p> </div> {{/if}}
<!-- Here the IF has an invalid child a closing div that does not open inside the IF body. The first div never close -->

<!-- Invalid Tags structure -->
<a href="{{#if condition}}" {{else}} extra-values" {{/if}} />

<!-- Valid Tags structure -->
<input type="text" />
<input type="..." ></input>

Motivation

I needed to convert from handlebars to a bunch of other DOM abstractions, like Virtual-DOM or React. And as I have a lot of handlebars templates already I prefer convert them rather than do them again from scratch.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Mictian

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