jst

Node JavaScript Template

Node-jst is a pretty high performance template engine and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js

Installation

via npm:

npm install jst

Features

• Automatically caching of intermediate JavaScript
• Unbuffered code for embed codes etc {% code %} or {{ variable }}

Example

{% if (user) { %}
  <h2>{{ user.name }}</h2>
{% } %}

Usage

var jst = require('jst');

// Render a string
jst.render('Hello {{ name }}', {name: 'jst'});

// Render a file
jst.renderFile('path/to/some.html', {name: 'jst'}, function(err, ctx) {
  // second arg are optional,
  // the callback can be the second arg
});

// Compile a function
var fn = jst.compile('Hello {{ name }}');
fn({name: 'jst'});

// Use `it.` as prefix of variables so that you can run it more than 30 times faster
jst.render('Hello {{ it.name }}', {name: 'jst'});

// Filters
jst.render('Hello {{ it.name|e }}', {name: '<strong>jst</strong>'});
jst.render('{{ it.entry|e|linebreaks }}', {entry: '...'});
jst.render('{{ it.value|add(123) }}', {value: 123});

// Custom filters
jst.addFilter('filterName', function(src) { ... });
jst.addFilters({anotherFilter: function(src) { ... }});
jst.render('{{ it.value|filterName }}', {value: 123});
jst.render('{{ it.value|anotherFilter }}', {value: 123});
// or
jst.addFilter('filterName', function(arg1, arg2, arg3) { return function(src) { ... }});
jst.render('{{ it.value|filterName(1, 2, 3) }}', {value: 123});

// i18n
jst.configure({
  locales: {lang: 'zh_CN', locales: __dirname + '/locales'}
});
jst.render('{{ _("Hello {it.name}")|e }}', {name: '<strong>jst</strong>'});

// Client side
<script src="jst.js"></script>
<script>
  jst.render('Hello {{ it.name }}', {name: 'jst'});
</script>

Benchmarks

A brief comparison of some JavaScript templating engines on a short template: 7 DOM nodes ... 7 interpolated values.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Shaun Li [e-mail]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.