Templates

Templates is a jade template prepackager for Express, inspired by Jammit Templates is written in coffeescript by Marcel Miranda.

Source Code

Installation

npm install templates

Usage

Considering your project directory structure is like the following:

app.js
views/
templates/
  notification/
    panel.jade
  profile.jade

Server

var templates = require 'templates'

// Create express app
var app = express.createServer()

app.use(templates({
  
  // src is the directory where jade template files are stored
  src: __dirname + "/templates",
  
  // url is the url the request will respond to
  url: "/templates.js",
  
  // namespace is the javascript object the 
  // templates will be attached to
  namespace: "window.templates"
  
}))

Client

<!-- Add templates script to page -->
<script src="/templates.js"></script>

<!-- Use templates -->
<script>
  
  templates.profile({name: "John", age: 25})
  // Will return a html string based on templates/profile.jade
  
  templates.notification.panel({title: "Error", message: "Could not log in"})
  // Will return a html string based on templates/notification/panel.jade
  
</script>

Production

Templates will look for the process.env.NODE_ENV to see if working on production environment. When running on production, Templates will automatically compress the templates file using uglify-js. When not running on production, Templates will leave jade's compileDebug option to true, which leaves line numbers for debugging purposes.

Copyright © 2012 Marcel Miranda. See LICENSE for further details.