Maria Engine

Maria is a templating engine that works in node.js. It features:

• A lightweight readable syntax.
• Easily customizable.
• Just html.

Here is how your our templates look like:

<div :each="activeUsers user">
  <span>${user.name}</span>
  <span :.danger:if="user.status === 'unknown'">${user.status}</span>
  <button :disabled:if="user.active">Mark as active</button>
</div>

And this is how to achieve the same in one of the popular templating engines in the ecosystem:

{{#each activeUsers as | user}}
<div>
  <span>{{user.name}}</span>
  <!-- We can't just use javascript expressions -->
  <span {{#if user.isStatusUnkown}} class="danger" {{/if}}>{{user.status}}</span>
  <button {{#if user.active}} disabled {{/if}}>Mark as active</button>
</div>
{{/each}}

In terms of character count, Maria has ±20% less characters than handlebars (and that's including the html!). And more importantly, it's arguably more readable.

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MIT Licence