wjst

wjst

Wjst is an awesome, Django/Jinja-like template engine for node.js.

Features

• Available for node.js and major web browsers!
• Express compatible.
• Object-Oriented template inheritance.
• Apply filters and transformations to output in your templates.
• Automatically escapes all output for safe HTML rendering.
• Lots of iteration and conditionals supported.
• Robust without the bloat.
• Extendable and customizable. See Wjst-Extras for some examples.
• Great code coverage.

Need Help? Have Questions? Comments?

• Mailing List/Google Group
• StackOverflow

Installation

npm install wjst

Documentation

All documentation can be viewed online on the Wjst Website.

Basic Example

Template code index.html

<h1>{{ pagename|title }}</h1>
<ul>
{% for author in authors %}
    <li{% if loop.first %} class="first"{% endif %}>{{ author }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

node.js code

const wjst  = require('wjst');
const template = wjst.compileFile('./index.html');
const output = template({
    pagename: 'awesome people',
    authors: ['Den', 'Paul', 'Jane']
});

Output

<h1>Awesome People</h1>
<ul>
    <li class="first">Den</li>
    <li>Paul</li>
    <li>Jane</li>
</ul>

For working example see examples/basic

How it works

Wjst reads template files and translates them into cached javascript functions. When we later render a template we call the evaluated function, passing a context object as an argument.