jspl

jspl

JSP Like Template Engine for ExpressJS and NodeJS (based on underscore, support include, cache...)

Features

• Cache
• Include HTML fragment
• Variables
• Loop

see: Gists section

Getting started

1. Install JSPL $npm install jspl -save

2. Enable JSPL in Express 4 Edit app.js, let's JSPL bind to the express app.

var app = express();

// view engine setup app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));

// Enable app.set('view cache', false);

// Bind JSPL to express jspl.bind(app);

Sample: sample/express/

Gists

Add variable

File: views/index.html

Hello <%= name %>

File: app.js

app.get('/', function(req, res) { res.render('index', {name: 'John'}); })

Result:

Hello John

For loop

File: views/index.html

Hello

1. <%= name %>

File: app.js

app.get('/', function(req, res) { res.render('index', {people: ['moe', 'curly', 'larry']}); })

Result:

Hello

1. moe
2. curly
3. larry

Include fragment

Include a HTML page into the current one. <%@ include file="viewName" %>

• viewName : Location of the included view without extension. The extension .html will be added automatically.
• <%@ %> : Indicate a tag
• include : Tag name
• file : Tag parameter

Notes

The simple template language is very close to JSP. It's based on underscore.

This project does not provide any advanced JSP tag. underscore. Compliant with Express. Add the tag include for HTML fragment.

Roadmap

• Improve syntax error message
• Speed optimization