#templating engine

[nofatclips]

The V in Templating

We still need a saner way to handle views than returning strings of HTML. Following the M101J course, I'm installing Freemarker, a very simple templating engine.

The dependencies details for Maven can be found on the artifact page:

<dependency>     <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId>     <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId>     <version>2.3.19</version> </dependency>

and since it resides on the central Maven repo like Java Mongo, that's pretty much everything.

We're ready for yet another Hello World class.

[creativedrewy]

Markup as coffeescript! Snazzy templating for nodejs that lets you write your page markup in coffeescript. Similar to jade, but the beauty of this is that you're writing bona-fide coffeescript. I really like the way templates come out looking on coffeekup -- logically readable and half the lines of regular markup!

[whatmakesuptheweb]

> * **Fast**: Twig _compiles_ templates down to plain optimized PHP code. The overhead compared to regular PHP code was reduced to the very minimum. > * **Secure**: Twig has a _sandbox_ mode to evaluate untrusted template code. This allows Twig to be used as a template language for applications where users may modify the template design. > * **Flexible**: Twig is powered by a flexible _lexer_ and _parser_. This allows the developer to define its own custom tags and filters, and create its own DSL. > > […] Twig is brought to you by [Fabien Potencier][1], the creator of the [Symfony framework][2]. [1]: http://fabien.potencier.org/ [2]: http://symfony.com/