justin-ml

Just another templating language

Usage

Installation

From npm: npm i -g justin-ml

From local copy: npm i -g ., or run with the npm start script

Compiling

Options

• -V, --version Installed version
• -i, --input Input file (optional, can use file arg instead)
• -o, --output Output file (optional, default writes to stdout)
• --pretty Format outputted html

$ justin-ml compile_this.jml

Language

Syntax

Brackets instead of closing tags

div {
  span { }
}

Attributes use : instead of =

a href:"google.com" { }

Text represented as strings

span { "some text" }

JS style comments

// This will be ignored
span { "hello" }

Features

Variables

def $primary "blue"
def $link "google.com"

a href:$link color:$primary {
  "go to " $link
}

Templates

tmpl $button ($color $action) {
  button color:$color {
    "clicking here will " $action
  }
}

div class:"shopping-cart-footer" {
  $button ("grey" "cancel your order")
  $button ("green" "continue to checkout")
}

Todo

• Way to import other files
• Control flow keywords