do partials work?

[funston]

i have a simple partial, template in the same dir.
tried both (where header.html.mu exists in the same directory as the main template.html.mu

{{foo}} {{header.html}}

nothing, works but doesn't include what is in header.html

[janl]

Partials do work, check out the examples in the examples/ directory as well as the docs in the Readme. mustache.js doesn't automatically load any files in the same directory (as JavaScript doesn't have any file-io :)

[funston]

what does "automatically load any files" mean? so lets' say i have:

view.js
templates/header.html.mu
templates/body.html.mu

in view.js,i have : Mu.templateRoot = './templates';

then i render "header.html".

header.html.mu has

{{>body.html}}

but it never gets included. am i missing something? is there some directory path munging going on?

can you point me to a specific js example that runs a partial? I see the markup .html.mu but not any js that does anything with them...
thanks,
thanks....

[funston]

oh, i see test.js. so are you saying that we must use readFileSYnc and do a compile of the template, versus doing render that has partials?

[funston]

continued struggle. is there a simple example that runs under nodejs that uses partials in the templates?

[janl]

the key here is that you will have to have loaded all the template files from somewhere before calling to_html() and pass in all the template's contents:

var view = {
  partial: {
    foo: 1
  },
  name: "Jan"
};

var template = "Hi {{name}}. you have {{>partial}} foos.";

var partial_html = "{{foo}}";

Mustache.to_html(view, template, {
   partial: partial_html
});

[funston]

/nevermind.

the problem was, my template had a

, which was blowing up the compiler....it apparently needs to be ' quotes:

in the partial...

[xoundboy]

the key here is that you will have to have loaded all the template files from somewhere before calling to_html() and pass in all the template's contents:

var view = {
partial: {
foo: 1
},
name: "Jan"
};

var template = "Hi {{name}}. you have {{>partial}} foos.";

var partial_html = "{{foo}}";

Mustache.to_html(view, template, {
partial: partial_html
});

... I think you should add this to the documentation - I spent over an hour scratching my head over why partials didn't work - I like simple and clear documentation as much as anyone but not at the expense of leaving out essential information on how to use a basic functionality