mustachec

Compiles Mustache templates in HTML to javascript.

Compiled templates don't use eval nor Function so they can be used from restricted environments such as Chrome extension apps.

Status

Stable and being used in commercial development.

Install

npm install mustachec

Usage

Compiling

mustachec main.html

compiles each Mustache template within main.html like below (expressed as Jade template)

script#dialog-template(type='text/x-mustache-template')
  .modal.hide
    .modal-header
      a.cancel.close ×
      img.modal-logo(src='/img/brand.png')
      .modal-title {{title}}

script#confirm-dialog-subtemplate(type='text/x-mustache-template')
  .modal-body
    center {{message}}
  .modal-footer
    button.cancel.btn Cancel
    button.ok.btn.btn-primary {{confirm}}

into javascript and save them as main-templates.js file like below in the same directory:

window.compiledTemplates = {}
window.compiledTemplates["dialog-template"] = ...;
window.compiledTemplates["confirm-dialog-subtemplate"] = ...;

Rendering

var context = { title: "foobar" };
var renderedHtml = window.compiledTemplates["dialog-template"].render(context)

Generated code currently expects Hogan.js 2.0 to be loaded.

Options

Use -s or --selector option to override jQuery selector used to identify Mustache template elements in HTML input. Default selector is script[type='text/x-mustache-template'] like this:

mustachec -s ".template" main.html

Use -a or --assign option to specify where to store the compiled templates. Default location is window.compiledTemplates.

mustachec -a "var compiledTemplates" main.html

Use -o or --out option to specify output directory.

mustachec -o ../build main.html