express-plates-examples

Examples for Plates template engine adapter for Express

express-plates-examples

This project goal is to provide very simple example for express-plate package.

express-plates

This small piece of code allow you to simply use Flatiron's Plate template engine in within Express framework.

Example - How to

Here is a simple example to render a /views/index.html

var app = require('express')();
require('express-plates').init(app);
 
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
 
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.render('index', {
        data: {
            title: 'Plates is pretty cool, so is Express',
            content: 'It seems to work quiet well'
        }
    });
});
 
app.listen(8080);

Detailed setup and options

Maps

init(app) returns the plates object so you can retrieve it and use Map() easilly :

var plates = require('express-plates').init(app);
 
// further in the app... 
 
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    var map = plates.Map();
 
    map.class('content').to('content');
 
    res.render('index', {
        data: {
            content: 'It seems to work quiet well'
        },
        map: map
    });
});

express-plates-examples

express-plates-examples

express-plates

Example - How to

Detailed setup and options

Maps

Private packages for the whole team

Collaborators

Stats

Try it out

Keywords

Dependencies (2)