Announcing DjHTML: A Django template indender

[Jaap Joris Vens]

Dear all,

I would like to take this opportunity to announce my side project to
the Django community. It's a Django template indenter called DjHTML.
It's Black for Django templates!

https://github.com/rtts/djhtml/

Over the past year I have fallen in love with Black and pre-commit to
automatically format code upon each commit. However, I could not find
any tool that would do the same for HTML files and so I decided to
write one myself. Take for instance the following template:

    {% block content %}
    <form
    {% if index > 1 %}
    class="extra"
    {% endif %}
    >
    {% localize on %}
    {% if clickable %}
    <a href="{% url 'detail' %}">
    {% endif %}
    Blog post {{ nr }}
    {% if clickable %}
    </a>
    {% endif %}
    {% endlocalize %}
    </form>
    {% endblock %}

This is what it looks like after processing by DjHTML:

    {% block content %}
        <form
            {% if index > 1 %}
                class="extra"
            {% endif %}
        >
            {% localize on %}
                {% if clickable %}
                    <a href="{% url 'detail' %}">
                {% endif %}
                Blog post {{ nr }}
                {% if clickable %}
                    </a>
                {% endif %}
            {% endlocalize %}
        </form>
    {% endblock %}

Currently, DjHTML is able to parse DTL, HTML, CSS, Javascript and any
combinations of these inside the same template. The indentation rules
are similar to Emacs' web-mode.el but with better handling of some
edge cases.

The difference with Black is that DjHTML is an indenter and not a
formatter: It will only add/remove whitespace and not insert newlines
or any other characters. The goal is to indent already well-structured
templates but not to fix broken ones. Also, unlike Black, the tabwidth
is configurable :-)

I am hoping that some of you will give it a try and hopefully provide
me with some feedback, test cases, and bug reports that will help me
improve this tool.

Greetings,
Jaap Joris Vens

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Django users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/YKug2AoTDvcMSLz4%40logos.