Plate is a Django Template Language implementation in Javascript. Super exciting!
- Plays nicely with the event loop and async code. Plate makes it easy to parallelize your view code!
- Aims to be compatible with the latest version of the Django Template Language. If you've got a template in Django, it should render just fine in Plate.
- Thoroughly tested using the Platoon testing framework.
- Designed to work nicely in a Node.js environment
- Extensible -- It makes use of plugins to provide capabilities (e.g., template loading).
Yes. Plate was designed to work well in the standard suite of browsers. Each minor point release will target compatibility with IE7+, FF3+, Chrome, and Safari 4+.
The most basic case:
var plate = require('plate'),
sys = require('sys');
var template = new plate.Template('hello {{ world }}');
template.render({world:'everyone'}, function(err, data) {
sys.puts(data);
});
// outputs "hello everyone"
Plate follows the Node.js style of taking callbacks that receive an error object and a data object. If there's no
error, err will be null.
Plate is documented on it's github wiki. There are "Getting Started" guides for both in-browser as well as in-node environments.
Got a feature you'd like to add? I'd love to see it. The workflow is pretty standard Github fare:
- Fork this repository.
- Create a branch -- title it descriptively, please :)
- Work, work, work.
- Push your changes and submit a pull request.
The minimum requirements for a pull request to be merged are:
- You've added (passing) tests for your new code.
- The existing tests still pass.
- You've added (or changed, as appropriate) documentation to the
docs/folder in Markdown format.
Licensed new BSD.