Use vanilla jade templates in your language of choice, via a node server that produces jade for you.
Once upon a midnight weary
While I coded, caffinated, very
Over many a quine
but hankering for javascript more
Then I thought it, addiction trapping
suddenly jade templates were attracting
As the pale clones were mocking,
failing me in need once more
"Tis' served templates," I muttered
"transferring from some local port -
Only this and nothing more"
There are two ways of using jaded: one way is to start the server manually and build the TCP queries yourself, and the other is to use the provided bindings in various other languages to start and/or manage the jaded process and wrap the interface.
After getting jaded via your favorite javascript package manager, you start the jaded process with:
jaded localhost:7389
And it will look for all the *.jade templates in that current directory (and it's subdirectories) and start serving back templates in response to TCP connections, which carry the variable values to be inserted into the templates.
As an example of a binding, let's look at the python interface:
import jaded
jaded.serve('.') # this will start the jaded server in the current directory
print jaded.template('directory/template.jade', {'some_var': 'some_value'})
Since you may not want to start a jaded instance for each instance of the library, there is a bit of flexibility in the .serve() interface, which allows you to attach to an already created server.
There might also be pre-made hooks into various frameworks.
I have no idea whether this is performant or not. I hope it is, but it does involve interprocess communication: if it only has a small multiple of a speed drop compared to native methods, it might be able to be lived with.
Even in winter
clings the need to optimize
really, fast enough
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