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14 pointsmlanza14y ago9 comments

This is for those who prefer to write markup with code, not templates. It's not the first implementation of this sort, but it is the latest.

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McLeopold14y ago· 2 in thread

Shameless plug:

I've been working on the exact same thing. It works with nodejs out of the box. It's still in beta, but being actively developed.

http://mcleopold.github.com/JavascriptHtmlr/

Someday I'll make it a jquery plugin as well...

mlanzaOP14y ago

No worries. There are lots of flavors. I was just looking to scratch an itch. :)

McLeopold14y ago

You'd be surprised how may projects exist that are like this. But somehow template languages are always more popular and have more traction. I guess there are very few people who would rather have code produce markup than have markup allow code. Perhaps because large projects have their markup written by non-coders?

rsutphin14y ago· 1 in thread

Please note: there is another open source project named "buildr": http://buildr.apache.org/. It's a rake-based build tool for Java projects.

mlanzaOP14y ago

Ugh. Thanks. For now, let's just say we're under a different namespace.

lucisferre14y ago

This is great. There is definitely some friction getting templates into javascript without some sort of compilation step like the Rails asset pipeline.

I'm doing a trigger.io app where I know I'll just want a few simple templates and I don't really want to add anything to the build process right now. This might be perfect.

malandrew14y ago

How's the performance of this versus a templating system like _.template or handlebars?

When you draw many elements on a page or are constantly redrawing elements with updated data, how does it perform?

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