ractive-render

A simple way to render Ractive templates on node.js.

Installation

$ npm install ractive-render

Use v0.4.x for Ractive v1.x.x.

Use v0.3.x for Ractive v0.5.x.

Use v0.2.x for Ractive v0.4.0.

Usage

var rr = require('ractive-render');
var template = 'template.html';
var options = { data: { ... } };
var callback = function (err, html) { ... };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

.renderFile() returns a Promise so you can use .then() instead of the callback:

rr.renderFile(template, options).then(callback);

If you don't specify data in options, the whole options object will be passed to Ractive as data argument:

options = { ... }; // the same as { data: { ... } }

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Partials

You can define your partial directly:

options = { data: { ... }, partials: { partial: myPart } };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Or you can provide a path to the partial:

options = { data: { ... }, partials: { partial: 'partial!path/to/the/partial' } };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

If you have your partials in the same directory as template, you can let ractive-render to take care of the whole process:

rr.config({ autoloadPartials: true }); // you can omit this as it defaults to true

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Components

Just like with partials, you can define your components directly:

options = { data: { ... }, components: { component: myComp } };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Or you can provide a path. This requires either RVC or load plugin to be installed:

options = { data: { ... }, components: { component: 'path/to/the/component' } };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Ractive RVC

To use the RVC plugin, you need to install it along with RequireJS:

$ npm install rvc requirejs

Be careful to install the correct RVC version for your version of Ractive:

• for Ractive 0.4.0 use RVC 0.1.3,
• for Ractive 0.5.x use RVC 0.2.x.
• for Ractive 1.x.x use RVC 0.6.x.

Tell ractive-render to use the plugin:

rr.use('rvc').config({ componentsLoader: 'rvc' });

Now you can render your components like this:

options = { use: 'rvc', data: { ... } };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Optionally, use can set RVC as default loader and omit the use parameter.

rr.config({ defaultLoader: 'rvc' });

options = { data: { ... } };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Ractive load

$ npm install ractive-load

You can use it the same way as the RVC plugin.

Integration with Express

var rr = require('ractive-render');
app.engine('html', rr.renderFile);

app.render(template, options, callback);

Performance

If you set cache to true, ractive-render will cache the templates in memory:

options = { cache: true, data: { ... } };

rr.renderFile(template, options, callback);

Note that Express does this automatically for production environments. You can clear the cache by calling rr.clearCache().

More details

Just look at the code.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Martin Kolárik. Released under the MIT license.