This small framework help you to work with mustache, jade, ejs, doT or underscore templates. It let you easily structure your templete in a hierarchy. It enables to load subTemplates by providing a child templateManager to the used data-object. Now it can load templates from -tags or via name throu ajax.
-loading templates dynamicly from the server during development -merge templates for Production to JS -load your templates hirarchic from your filesystem -build recursive templates
You can check everything in detail in the source of index.html and the Templates folder.
create an object of TemplateManager: load your templatingEngine and the TemplateManagerClass.js in your HTML and then
var tM = new TemplateManager("EJS"); // you can also use "underscore", "jade", "mustache", "dot"
tM.defaults; // basic object that will be passed to every template
tM.basePath; // the rootpath for the templates, default is ./templates
tM.fileExtension; // FileExtension the extension that all files have. default is HTML
tM.nameOfTemplatemanager; // name of the templateManager that is passed to the Templates.
tM.baseName; // baseName is usually empty. it is used internally for hirarchy
tM.templates; // templates the list of cached templates
usually you only need the render method.
tM.render("sub/name",data);
this method will load the template and render them.
If you initialise the tM before all HTML is interpreted including all the templates, you can run
tM.findTemplates();
by yourselfe. it will find and compile all templates in the HTML that have an id-Attribute.
the other methods compile and loadTemplateFileare, are used internally.
It is possible to compile the themplates in a folder to one file, that can be merged to your js.
This module is developed and maintained by Tobias Nickel, feel free to contact me here on Github.
I will check out to Support more Engines, like haml and Hogan. Very important is also the support for dependency management, so I want to support requireJS and google-closure.
###Developer
Tobias Nickel
