How to render a template outside of a web request in Mojolicious?

Question

Is there a way to use the Mojolicious rendering engine to render a template outside of a web request?

Answer 1

yes

use Mojolicious::Renderer;

my $renderer = Mojolicious::Renderer->new;

push @{renderer->paths}, '/path/to/your/templates';

my $template = $renderer->get_data_template({
    template       => 'foo/bar',
    format         => 'html',
    handler        => 'epl'
});