Hi all,
There are several new & exciting developments in HTML templating land.
First of all, Ryan Kaldari kindly tested the Knockoff / TAssembly HTML
templating library from a Mobile perspective [1,2], and summarized his
findings on the wiki [3]. The main missing feature he identified was the
ability to mark up control flow outside of HTML elements. To address this, I
just added support for Knockout's comment syntax to the Knockoff compiler
[4]. This turned out to be straightforward, and required no changes in the
TAssembly runtime.
Secondly, Dan spotted two very promising developments in upstream KnockoutJS:
== Knockout Components ==
There's a new version of KnockoutJS coming that might bridge a gap we saw at
the architecture summit in January, the one between templating and
widget...ing. Knockout components [5,6] could be said bridge, they're
basically web components but possible now.
== Curly braces ==
The other thing they're adding is text interpolation so you can do
<span>{{name}}</span> and people don't have to be sad about Knockout's HTML
attribute syntax. This can simplify the migration for existing handlebars
compatible templates as used by Mobile & Flow.
The KnockoutJS release is currently in early beta [7], with the release
expected later this summer.
Gabriel & Dan
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/Knockoff_-_Tassembly
[2] https://github.com/gwicke/knockoff/, https://github.com/gwicke/tassembly/
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library/Knockoff_-_Tassembly/Mobile_spike
[4]
https://github.com/gwicke/knockoff/commit/0e516979c3d1fb35489c58e7b659c3ad0b3cdf94
[5] http://www.knockmeout.net/2014/06/knockout-3-2-preview-components.html
[6]
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2014/06/11/architecting-large-single-page-applications-with-knockout-js/
[7] https://github.com/knockout/knockout/tree/gh-pages-3.2.0
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