Hello everyone,
A few of you might have remembered me posting a proof-of-concept
embedded D template engine a week or two ago. I'd like to
announce that a few weeks of development later, I've extracted
the core idea of that into a Dub-compatible library, called
templ-d.
The syntax that templ-d uses is identical to that of eRuby, so
any Ruby programmers will feel right at home with this. However,
delimiters can easily be changed if you so choose.
Templ-d parses templates at compile time, so there is zero
runtime overhead when rendering templates. An optional object or
struct can be passed into templ-d functions, to provide outside
context to the template.
An example of what the syntax looks like:
% foreach(i; 0..2) {
Index: <%= i %>
% }
will return the string:
Index: 0
Index: 1
Index: 2
Details about passing in additional contexts and
shorthand/longhand notation plus examples are available at:
https://github.com/dymk/templ-d
The dub package is located at:
http://registry.vibed.org/packages/templ-d
This is the first public-presentable D project I've done, so
critique on the code and pull requests are very welcome. On a
side note, a target I've got for the library is to be an
alternative template engine for vibe-d, a web framework written
in D, but I'll cross that bridge in the future.
