Tornado is an HTML templating language for the server and the browser. Tornado renders DOM immediately and dynamic values asynchronously as the data becomes available.
The easiest way to try Tornado is with the sandbox. A preview release of Tornado is expected to be available by June 1, 2015, but if you want to start using Tornado before then, you can build it yourself following the steps below.
Clone the Tornado repository:
$ git clone
Install Node.js and Grunt if they are not already installed. Then, from the project's root directory, run:
$ grunt
You now have a parser, compiler, and runtime available in the dist/ directory. For an example of how to package these up using Browserify, see test/sandbox/sandbox.js, test/sandbox/index.html, and the Browserify Grunt task in Gruntfile.js.
If you are reading this section, you are awesome! Thanks for your interest in contributing. For more information on contributing, please review the Tornado Constitution. Several aspects of the project, including building, testing, and packaging are still in flux. However, following the steps below will get you up and running.
You can use the Sandbox to try out your changes and see output, compiled template, and the AST. To prepare the Sandbox, run:
$ grunt sandbox
Then open /test/sandbox/index.html in your browser.
Acceptance tests are found in test/acceptance/. To run the tests:
grunt acceptance
Then open tests/acceptance/index.html in your browser.
- Server side rendering is not yet supported.