jHaml (GitHub: soyuka/jhaml, License: MIT, npm: @soyuka/jhaml)
jHaml is a Javascript implementation of the Haml templating engine which was originally written in Ruby.
When I was still doing a lot of Rails I first got introduced to Haml. I was able to change erb like this:
<section class=”container”>
<h1><%= post.title %></h1>
<h2><%= post.subtitle %></h2>
<div class=”content”>
<%= post.content %>
</div>
</section>
Into:
%section.container
%h1= post.title
%h2= post.subtitle
.content
= post.content
Now we use do the same for our Javascript applications. After searching a bit I noticed that there are a few implementations of this already. The reason why I like this library is that it’s based on streams and because of this it has great support for build tooling Gulp, which is also stream based. There also is a nice example of how to use it in frameworks like Express
For more details and documentation check the README which thoroughly explains how it works and how to use it.
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