Templates - vanilla-templates

Template parsing with Hogan

You can read more about Hogan and Mustache here:

• Hogan: http://twitter.github.io/hogan.js/
• Mustache: http://mustache.github.io/

Install

You can install Templates via npm

`npm install --save vanilla-templates`

Usage

Elements with the attribute x-template get indexed by their name and injected into the DOM where the attribute x-template-inject matches the template's name.

To inject a specific template you can call Templates.inject(templatename, data) while templatename is the value of x-template and data is the object or array of objects that holds the data to be passed to the Hogan template.

Example

Inject

Here is an example template:

<script x-template="foobar">
  <h1>{{title}}</h1>
</script>

You would need an element where your temptate should be injected with data:

<div x-template-inject="foobar"></div>

In JS you would now call the template with the according data:

Templates.inject('foobar', {
  title: 'This was fun!'
});

This renders in HTML as:

<div x-template-id="foobar__08a2341b"><h1>This was fun!</h1></div>

and is injected at the point where you defined x-template-inject="foobar". The ID is generated automatically but you can also define manual IDs by setting id on each object you inject.

Templates.inject('foobar', {
  title: 'This was fun!',
  id: 'title-element'
});

The generated ID will be stored on each object.

You can pass a thrid parameter callback to Templates.inject.

Templates.inject('foobar', {
  title: 'This was fun!',
  id: 'title-element'
}, function (data) {
  // Play with `data` for each element
});

The forth parameter is a boolean value: wrap. If set to false the div around each rendered template is not printed.

Update

If you want to you can now update the data like this:

Templates.update('foobar', 'title-element' {
  title: 'This is even more fun!',
  id: 'title-element'
});

Why?

Most of the time you need some kind of system around building templates and injecting them. This plugin enables you to do so with a couple of conventions.