maudite

maudite

maudite (moe-DEET) is a templating system using template literals. It returns a stream of buffers, or a string, for sending the resulting data to its destination.

maudite is pretty quick

Usage

A single function is exported, which acts as a template tag. This tag returns a function taking in a context object, which is then passed to any functions that are inlined into the template literal.

const m = require('maudite');
const template = m`Hello, ${c=>c.name}!\n`;
template({name: 'World'}).pipe(process.stdout);

// Hello, World!

Your inlined functions can return a buffer or a string or another template, and these will be sent to the stream. This means you can do any kind of conditional logic you want to determine what to render.

As a shortcut, you can simply put a property name (as a string that's parsed with deep-access) for the context object, rather than a function accessing it.

const m = require('maudite');
const template = m`Hello, ${'name'}!\n`;
template({name: 'World'}).pipe(process.stdout);

// Hello, World!

You can also use the special m.each function to iterate over arrays in your context object.

const m = require('maudite');
const template = m`Hello,${m.each('things', m` Thing ${c=>c.name}`)}!\n`;
template({
  things: [
    {name: '1'},
    {name: '2'}
  ]
}).pipe(process.stdout);

// Hello, Thing 1 Thing 2!

The first argument to m.each is a context accessor string (see Accessing Properties, below), giving the property that is an array to iterate over. The next argument is a template to apply to each element of the array.

To return a compiled and ready-to-go string, rather than a stream, just call the asString function on the template, passing in the context object.

const m = require('maudite');
const template = m`Hello, ${'name'}!\n`;
console.log(template.asString({name: 'World'}));

// Hello, World!

Accessing properties

For both inline values (like ${'foo'}) and for the first argument to m.each, strings can be used to access properties of the context object. These are dot-separated strings that are compatible with their usage in [deep-access][].

In addition, you can use the @ symbol to refer to the current context object.

Here's an example, where the context object passed in is the string `'World':

const m = require('maudite');
const template = m`Hello, ${'@'}!\n`;
console.log(template.asString('World'));


// Hello, World!

License

See LICENSE.txt