Plate.js -- A Template Library

Plate is a Django Template Language implementation in Javascript. Super exciting!

Plate

• Plays nicely with the event loop and async code. Plate makes it easy to parallelize your view code!
• Aims to be compatible with the latest version of the Django Template Language. If you've got a template in Django, it should render just fine in Plate.
• Thoroughly tested using tape.
• Designed to work nicely in a Node.js environment
• Extensible -- It makes use of plugins to provide capabilities (e.g., template loading).

Can I use it in my browser?

Yes. Plate was designed to work well in the standard suite of browsers. Each minor point release will target compatibility with IE7+, FF3+, Chrome, and Safari 4+.

You can download a minified, precompiled version here.

If you're having trouble, try using the debug version, with source maps.

How do I use it?

In node (or browserify):

    var plate = require('plate')

    var template = new plate.Template('hello {{ world }}')

    template.render({world:'everyone'}, function(err, data) {
      console.log(data)
    })

    // outputs "hello everyone"

Plate follows the Node.js style of taking callbacks that receive an error object and a data object. If there's no error, err will be null.

In browser (vanilla):

    <script type="text/javascript" src="plate.min.js">
    <script type="text/html" id="template">
        hello {{ world }}.
    </script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var source = $('#template').text()
          , template = new plate.Template(source)

        template.render({world: 'everyone'}, function(err, data) {
          console.log(data)
        })
    </script>

In browser (using require.js):

require(['plate.min'], function(plate) {
  var template = new plate.Template('hello {{ world }}')
})

Documentation

Plate is documented on its github wiki. There are "Getting Started" guides for both in-browser as well as in-node environments.

Contributing

Got a feature you'd like to add? I'd love to see it. The workflow is pretty standard Github fare:

• Fork this repository.
• Create a branch -- title it descriptively, please :)
• Work, work, work.
• Push your changes and submit a pull request.

The minimum requirements for a pull request to be merged are:

• You've added (passing) tests for your new code.
• The existing tests still pass.
• You've added (or changed, as appropriate) documentation to the docs/ folder in Markdown format.

Run the tests

In node:

$ npm install plate
$ npm test plate

License

Licensed MIT.