AJS is an experimental asyncronous templating language for Node.
Note: This project has been abandoned. The syntax is messy and it's just too hard to use in practice. For reasonably usable async templating, look at Kernel and dust.js.
$ npm install ajsAJS includes Connect middleware:
var connect = require('connect')
, mysql = new (require('mysql').Client)
, ajs = require('ajs');
mysql.user = 'dbuser';
mysql.password = 'passwd';
mysql.connect();
mysql.useDatabase('blog');
var getPosts = function(viewCallback) {
mysql.query("select * from posts", viewCallback);
}
var server = connect.createServer()
.use(ajs({dir: './views'}))
.use(function(req, res) {
res.render('index', {title: "Blog Home", getPosts: getPosts});
});views/index.ajs:
<html>
<head>
<title><%= title %></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><%= title %></h1>
<div id="posts">
<% getPosts(function(err, posts) {
if(posts) {
posts.forEach(function(post) { %>
<div class="post">
<h3><a href="#"><%= post.title %></a></h3>
<%- post.body %>
</div>
<%});
} else { %>
An error occured while trying to load the posts.
<% }
}) %>
</div>
</body>
</html>For lower-level access to an AJS template, simply require it, call it with a locals object template(<locals>), and bind to its data, error and end events.
var template = require('views/index');
template({title: 'Hello World!'}).on('data', function(data) {
console.log(data);
});index.ajs:
<html>
<head>
<title><%= 'Hello World' %></title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- AJS is a superset of javascript, so things like
variable assignment just work as expected -->
<% var async2 = function() { %>
<div><%= 'async 2 done' %></div>
<% } %>
<% if(10 == (5 + 5)) { %>
<h1>Hello world.</h1>
<% } %>
<% for(i=1; i<5; i++) { %>
<%= "next: " + i + "<br/>" %>
<% } %>
<!-- callbacks are flushed to the proper location in the template
when they return, but they can't be nested -->
<p>
<% setTimeout(function() { %>
<%= 'async 1 done' %>
<% }, 10 ) %>
</p>
<!-- some native syncronous callbacks are exempt from the
nested callback restriction. -->
<ul>
<% ['one', 'two', 'three'].forEach(function(item) { %>
<% ['nested'].forEach(function(item2) { %>
<li><%= item %></li>
<% include('partials', {item: item2}) %>
<% }); %>
<% }); %>
</ul>
<!-- named callback functions work too.
a callback's output is inserted into the template at the
spot where it was passed to its async function -->
<p> <% setTimeout(async2, 100) %> </p>
<!-- callbacks can be used multiple times -->
<% setTimeout(async2, 100) %>
<!-- other AJS partials can be embedded using the "include" function -->
<% include('partials/message', {text: "Hello world!"}) %>
<p><%= 'any statement can be printed - ' + (6 + 6) %></p>
</body>
</html>partials/message.ajs:
<div><%= text %></div>http://kainosnoema.github.com/ajs
- Evan Owen
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