azuki

node-azuki

A string template engine for NodeJs, treating everything as pure strings thus templates are included but not limited to HTML!

NodeJs VM is used to evaluate expressions in templates; therefore, it currently has no browser support!

Example

javascript

const { Azuki, parseFile } = require('azuki')
// dictionary
const dict = {
  test: 't_e_s_t',
  nested: 'test',
  // other js variables are allowed
  num: 1
}
 
const parser = new Azuki(dict)
 
// Using Nodejs Stream API
fs.createReadStream('/path/to/template')
  .pipe(parser)
  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream('/path/to/output'))
 
// Or using `parseFile` utility function
parseFile('/path/to/template', dict)
  .then(function (result) {
    console.log(result)
    // "This is a t_e_s_t!\nNested case: "t_e_s_t"\nConditional case: 1"
  })
 
parseFile('/path/to/template', '/path/to/output', dict)
  .then(function () {
    console.log(fs.readFileSync('/path/to/output', 'utf8'))
    // "This is a t_e_s_t!\nNested case: "t_e_s_t"\nConditional case: 1"
  })

template

This is a {% test %}!
Nested case: "{% {% nested %} %}"
Conditional case: {% num === 1 ? '1' : '2' %}

output

This is a t_e_s_t!
Nested case: "t_e_s_t"
Conditional case: 1

Caveat

Avoid using preserved words as dictionary keys. Preserved words are e.g. built-in objects and functions any standard global object has. Also see vm.createContext() in the Nodejs official document.

• JSON
• this
• console
• toString

(Which also means that you can utilize such functions like JSON.parse and JSON.stringify in the template.)

API

WIP

import {
  Azuki,
  AzukiParser,
  parseFile
} from 'azuki'

new Azuki()

new AzukiParser()

parseFile()

• Overloads
  • (src, dict, parserOptions?, encoding?): Promise<string>
  • (src, dest, dict, parserOptions?, encoding?): Promise<void>
• Parameters
  • src string
  • dest string
  • dict {[key: string]: string}
  • parserOptions ParserOptions
  • encoding string (Default: "utf8")

ParserOptions

interface ParserOptions {
  /**
   * @default "{%"
   */
  startingBrace?: string
 
  /**
   * @default "%}"
   */
  endingBrace?: string
 
  /**
   * Throw the evaluation error or not. (e.g. TypeError or xxx is undefined.)
   */
  throws?: boolean,
 
  /**
   * Only effective if `throws` is false,
   * this property will serve as the default value of the evaluation result.
   */
  defaultReplacement?: string
}