A JavaScript Template Engine Most Like Smarty
npm install smarty4jsSmarty4Js (Smarty For JavaScript)
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- JavaScript template engine
- Supports Smarty template syntax
- Used in Node.js
- Simple and powerful way to create and render a template
- Powerful
- Don't want to have two or more templates in your project
- Deep love for Smarty
- When your synchronous templates is Smarty, and your Ajax templates will use the same template
- When you want to write Smarty templates with JavaScript anywhere
- When you want to put a lot of logic in JavaScript templates
- When you like Smarty very much
- Single
- With Grunt
- With Gulp
- With EDP
- With all Node.js web subject
#### Install
``bash`
npm install -g smarty4js
#### Syntax
``
Most of Smarty syntax is supported.
#### Command line
`bash
// get tpl.js
smarty4Js compile a.tpl [b.tpl ...] [-c|--config=confPath -o|--output=outputPath]
-c | --config: Use user-define config file
-o | --output: Specify a destination directory
// get tpl.html
smarty4Js render a.tpl [b.tpl ...] -d|--data=jsonFilePath [-c|--config=confPath -o|--output=outputPath]
-d | --data : JSON data file path to render
-c | --config: Use user-defined config file
-o | --output: Specify a destination directory
// show current version
smarty4Js -v|--version
`
- if render, return html(demo.tpl.html), if compile, return jsTpl(demo.tpl.js)render
- jsTpl is a closure. It has a method that you can use:
`Javascript
// amd and cmd
var template = require('demo.tpl');
template.render(data);
// you can also use
`
#### used in Node.js
`javascript
// get Smarty class
var Smarty = require('smarty4Js');
// create a Smarty object
var s = new Smarty();
// if compile source is template code and have include, extend... sentence in codesetBasedir
// you must give a path by method
s.setBasedir(path);
// get compiler
// tpl param is template code or template file path
var compiler = s.compile(tpl);
// get ast
var ast = s.ast;
// get js code
var js = compiler.getJsTpl();
// render Smarty with data (3 methods)
var html = compiler.render(data);
// tpl param is template code or template file path
var html = s.render(tpl, data);
var html = (new Function('return ' + js)()).render(data);
``