Ask HN: Can anyone rec a simple templating language implemented in py and js?

2 points by kortina 16 years ago | 4 comments

The goal is to be able to present json data as html/ui, and do the rendering both on the server or client side. Most of the time the server app will generate the html when the page first loads, but when a list gets updated via user interaction with javascript, I don't want to have custom javascript duplicating the rendering that happens in my python templates. I have been looking at JSON-template (http://bit.ly/aO27UM) but would love to know if anyone has any recs. Also looked at Google Closure templates, but they are implemented in server side java, not python. Anyone have any good solutions they recommend?

jlindley 16 years ago |

Mustache: http://mustache.github.com/

For Python: http://github.com/defunkt/pystache

For Javascript: http://github.com/janl/mustache.js

Syntax docs: http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html

kortina 16 years ago | |

Playing with mustache and liking it so far. Thank you!

DanielStraight 16 years ago |

This might be worth looking into:

http://beebole.com/pure/

I haven't used it in production, but I've found it interesting nonetheless.

tchvil 16 years ago | |

The big difference PURE has with other templating engine is the total separation between the HTML representation and the JS logic.

As a result the JS code is live at rendering time and not stringified, allowing to pass functions as parameters and closures.

As the authors of the lib, we use it in production and are very satisfied of the speed. Some prominent newspapers here in Belgium are using it as well for some parts of their sites.

Thanks for the link.