ministache

Mustache templating with a focus on a slim size (~500 bytes gzipped). Useful for embedding into frontend libraries. ministache complies with most mustache specs with a few exceptions.

API

See the mustache(5) man page for an overview of features.

var compile = require('ministache');
var template = "Greetings, {{name}}";

var tpl = compile(template);
  
tpl({ name: "John Constantine" })
=> "Greetings, John Constantine"

  Available via npm install ministache

Why?

ministache is ideal for use in embedding in other redistributable frontend libraries.

• Small: Only <1kb gzipped.
• Standard: Compliant with almost all mustache specs (see below)

Why not?

There are some mustache features that were dropped to achieve its minimal size.

• It's only about 40% the speed of mustache.js.
• Does not support whitespace collapsing. Not really an issue much for HTML, anyway.
• Does not support partials.
• Does not support set-delimiters ({{=<% %>=}}).

Also see

• tj/minstache (min and not mini), which isn't spec compliant and doesn't support contexts ({{#user}}{{name}}{{/}})

• janl/mustache.js, a fast and feature-filled solution that supports partials and such

Thanks

ministache © 2015+, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.
Authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from contributors (list).

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