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brown
hyperfast and minimalistic json2html template engine for node/coffeescript/browser, a mashup between emmet/mustache/json-dsl/smarty
ϐrown
JSON 2 html/xml template engine on steroids. It borrows from JADE, but is jsonfriendly and has syntactical testosterone.
Usage
$ npm install brown
or in the browser:
<script type='text/javascript' src='brown.min.js'></script>
then
brown = require('brown').parse
json =
ul:
li:
'a[href="{{url}}"]': "click me"
data = { url: "http://turtlesarecool.com" }
console.log brown json,data
outputs
<ul><li><a href="http://turtlesarecool.com"></li></ul>
Syntactical testosterone
json =
'div#foo.flop>fieldset>div>span':
ul: 'items->li>a[href="{{url}}"]>{ {{.label}} }'
div:
'span>b.foo': '{{foo}}'
'span>b.bar': '{{func()}}'
'span>b.pip': '{{foo|upper|important}}'
data =
items: [{label:'one', url:"/"},{label:'two',url:'/two'}]
foo: "hello world"
func: () -> @.foo + " foobar"
upper: (str) -> str.toUpperCase()
important: (str) -> "!! "+str
NOTE: instead of coffeescript, see the javascript example here
outputs
<div id="foo" class="flop">
<fieldset>
<div>
<span>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="/"> one </a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/two"> two </a>
</li>
</ul>
</span>
</div>
</fieldset>
</div>
<div>
<span>
<b class="foo">hello world</b>
</span>
<span>
<b class="bar">hello world foobar</b>
</span>
<span>
<b class="pipe">!! HELLO WORLD</b>
</span>
</div>
Philosophy
ϐrown wants to be very fast an minimal, therefore uses json-dsl. ϐrown combines ideas from smarty, mustache and emmet/zencoding. ϐrown focuses on json and json-portability instead of text (smarty/mustache) or introducing a new syntax which require lexicalscanner/parsertree-bloat (jade,coffeecup,haml etc).
Features
- basic emmet syntax ('a>b' becomes '') overview here
- mustache variable substitution using {{variablename}}
- filter chaining using '|'
- functions using {{functionname()}}
- iteration over objects using '->' and {{.keyname}}
- iteration over arrays using '->' and {{.}}
With these basics you can literally do anything. Need more? just use functions and filters.
nested templates
Want master templates? Easy, you can call brown inside brown.
data =
master:
html:
head: ''
body:
'div#main': '{{content()}}'
page:
'ul#menu':
div: "{{foo}}"
data:
foo: "hello world"
content: () -> brown @.page, @.data
brown data.master, data
NOTE: instead of coffeescript, see the javascript example here
output
<html><head></head><body><div id="main"><ul id="menu"><div>hello world</div></ul></div></body></html></body></head></html>
traversing arrays/objects
Arrays here you go
div:
ul: 'arr->li>{ {{.}} }'
ol: 'arr->{{.|upper}}'
And for objects just reference the keys like so: {{.keyname}}
For more info see the info above or the tests
global functions and filters
Easy, just use extend (npm install extend).
global =
somefilter: (str) -> str.toUpperCase()
projectname: () -> return "myprojectname"
unique =
welcome: "hello"
json =
div:
span: '{{welcome}} {{projectname()|somefilter}}'
console.log brown json, extend global, unique
output
<div><span>hello MYPROJECTNAME</span></div>
Commandline util
$ brown 'a>b'
will output: <a><b></b></b>
Roadmap
- stability and peace
- prevent javascript event injection as text by using 'onclick' e.g. in json
FAQs
Ultra-extendable Mustache-ish template engine on steroids in 620 gzipped kilobytes, need nothing more!
The npm package brown receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, brown popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that brown demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 07 Nov 2015
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