node-conkitty

Apply Conkitty templates in Node.JS.

Conkitty is a DOM builder and supposed to work in browsers. Sometimes it is nice to be able to apply the same templates on server-side too. node-conkitty utilizes jsdom for DOM building.

Install npm package:

npm install node-conkitty

Run this code (having file1.ctpl and file2.ctpl):

conkitty = require('node-conkitty');
 
conkitty.compile(['file1.ctpl', 'file2.ctpl']);
console.log(conkitty.applyTemplate('template1', 'Hello', 'World'));
 
// <div><strong>Hello</strong></div><p><em>World</em></p>

Assume file1.ctpl looks like:

template1 $arg1 $arg2
    div
        CALL template2 $arg1
    p
        ns::tpl $arg2


template2 $arg
    strong
        $arg

And file2.ctpl looks like:

ns::tpl $arg
    em
        $arg

jsdom is not the fastest solution available, but it gives full W3C DOM support. My primary goal of using jsdom is to bring the ability to run Conkitty templates on server-side to build static sites with minimal efforts. And for static site generator high performance is not a very critical thing. With more efforts it is possible to run templates much faster and it'll probably happen some day in future.