Use an unobtrusive templating engine https://github.com/flatiron/plates

On Sunday, March 4, 2012 2:29:59 AM UTC-7, Tito wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering what is the best way to serve pages created by merging an 
> HTML layout with contents from a database record.
>
> In my case, I'm using the combination of Node, Express, MongoDB and 
> Mongoose. If a web designer creates a nice layout page (say a user page of 
> an address book, where contents of the user is displayed), what would be 
> the workflow here? In one hand I have read the template and on the other 
> hand I have the user database record. How do I merge the two? I thought of 
> adding placeholders in the layout, like $user_image, $first_name, 
> $last_name, $department, etc. I could then find/replace these placeholders 
> with real data. Is this an acceptable workflow, or is there a simpler way? 
> How are you guys working together with the web designer? I'm very curious 
> about this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -- Tito
>
>

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