AEJS

Asynchroneous Embedded JavaScript Templates.

Installation

$ npm install aejs

Features

• Parts of the EJS template can be build asyncroneous
• Ability to include files to build part of the template out of other files
• Master pages. Declare that the template fills some places in another master template.

Example

<% 
var fs = require('fs'); 
%>
<div>
<h1>List of the files in the folder:</h1>
<%(scope) 
fs.readdir(locals.dir, function(err, files) {
	for (var i=0; i<files.length; i++) {
		%>
		<p><%= files[i] %></p>
		<%
	}
	scope.finish();
});
(scope)%>
</div>

Usage

aejs.renderFile(aejsFileName, args, callback);
    => callback(err, res) will be called

aejs.renderString(aejsTemplateString, args, callback);
    => callback(err, res) will be called

args is passed to the compiled template as locals argument. The example above demonstrate this. It could be rendered with the follwoing code:

aejs.renderString(str, { dir: __dirname }, function(err, res) {
	if (err) return console.log('Error: ' + err));
	console.log(res);
});

Description

The idea is to extend the embedded javascript templates with the ability to render parts of the template asynchroneously. In order to acheve that we extend EJS syntax with the ability to "name" any scope frgarment.

A named fragment is started with <%(name) ... %> and ends with <% ... (name)%>. Everything between the fragment start and end goes in it. Starting a fragment declares a javascript local variable with that name. We must explicitly "signal" that we have completed putting things in it by calling name.finish();.

Don't forget to call name.finish(); if you name a fragment, otherwise the rendering of the template will never finish.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Stoyan Krastev <stoyan.krastev@gmail.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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