coffeebars

Handlebar style micro-templating engine with coffee-script based syntax and logic

Basic Example

A simple coffeebars template:

Hello {{@name}}
You have just won ${{@value}}!
{{if @in_ca}}Well, ${{@value - @value * @taxRate}}, after taxes.{{end}}

Given the following context:

name: "Kris"
value: 10000
taxRate: 0.4
in_ca: true

Will produce the following:

Hello Kris
You have just won $10000!
Well, $6000, after taxes.

Features

Context references

The context object is used as 'this' within the render function so
you refer to those objects using the @ symbol or with the 'this' keyword.
{{ @name }}
{{ this.name }}
{{ @child?.name }}

Loops

{{ for item in ['Alpha','Beta','Charlie'] }}
	<li>{{ item }}</li>
{{ end }}


{{ for name, value of @people }}
	<tr><td>{{ name }}</td><td>{{ value }}</td></tr>
{{ end }}


{{ while x++ < 10 }}
	Hello {{ x }}
{{ end }}

Conditionals

{{ if @person?.children? }}
	Children:
	{{ for child in @person.children }}
		Child: {{ child }}
	{{ end }}
{{ end }}


{{ if x? }}
	X
{{ else if y? }}
	Y
{{ else }}
	Z
{{ end }}

Multiline statements

{{
	#	any multiline statement will not be written out
	x = 12
	y = 10
	z = x * y
	if z > x
		x += 2
}}