Meatwagon.js 🥩

A dead-simple templating engine with pug-like syntax.

header.blue
    - if (state.loggedIn)
        h2 Welcome, ${state.user}!
        a(href="/logout") Logout
    - else
        a(href="/login") Login
main
    h2#news News
    - for (let i = 0; i < state.news.length; i++)
        - let news = state.news[i];
        article(id="a${i}")
            h3 ${news.title}
            p ${news.body}
footer
    | © Necropolist ${(new Date()).getFullYear()}}

meatwagon.render(input, {
    user: 'Arthas',
    loggedIn: true,
    news: [{
        title: 'New Yandex.Camera can fit 15 arrested men',
        body: 'And other jokes.'
    }, {
        title: 'Bears learned to fly',
        body: 'We\'re in danger.'
    }]
});

<header class="blue">
    <h2>Welcome, Arthas!</h2><a href="/logout">Logout</a>
</header>
<main>
    <h2 id="news">News</h2>
    <article id="a0">
        <h3>New Yandex.Camera can fit 15 arrested men</h3>
        <p>And other jokes.</p>
    </article>
    <article id="a1">
        <h3>Bears learned to fly</h3>
        <p>We're in danger.</p>
    </article>
</main>
<footer>© Necropolist 2022}</footer>

Syntax

• Pug-like tags.
  • Full syntax: tag-name.classOne.classTwo#Id(attribute="value") Text
  • If no tag name is specified, div is used. For example, .aNotice You have mail! renders into <div class="aNotice">You have mail!</div>.
  • ⚠ Classes and ID must go before the attributes, if there are any.
• Text nodes. Any line starting with | is output as text.
• Plain text. Put a dot at the end of a tag and write plain text inside it.
• JS string templating. Put ${state.yourProperty} to output values inside text nodes or tags.
• JS code. Any line with - as its first symbol is treated as is, as a JavaScript code.
  • if (condition), while (condition), for (whatever), and else automatically wrap nested markup with { }.
• Comments: // for those that don't get in the output HTML and //- for those that do.

API

meatwagon.render(input, state)

Immediately renders the input with a given state.

meatwagon.renderer(input)

Bakes a function for the input code that can be used repeatedly with different state objects as their argument to render the template.

const renderer = meatwagon.renderer('Hello ${state.user}!')