I'm working with backbone.js, but as far as I've seen, it doesn't care what templating system you use. Currently I'm trying out mustache.js, but I'm open to other ones. I'm a little annoyed though with the way I have to put a template into a string:
var context = {
name: this.model.get('name'),
email: this.model.get('email')
}
var template = "<form>Name<input name='name' type='text' value='{{name}}' />Email<input name='email' type='text' value='{{email}}' /></form>";
var html = Mustache.to_html(template, context);
$(this.el).html(html);
$('#app').html(this.el);
I'd like if I could load it from a different file or something somehow. I want to be able to have template files in order to simplify things. For example, if I put it all in a string, I can't have breaks (well I can have html breaks, but that's not the point). After the line starts to get very long, it becomes unmanageable.
Tips?
Updated (4/11/14):
As answered by OP below:
Unfortunately, the jQuery team has moved the templating functionality out of jQuery Core. The code is still available as a library here: github.com/BorisMoore/jquery-tmpl and here: github.com/borismoore/jsrender
Original Answer:
I just used this a couple of hours ago: http://api.jquery.com/category/plugins/templates/
It's an official jQuery plugin(i.e. the devs endorse it).
This is the function you need to use for loading templates from things other than strings: http://api.jquery.com/template/
Here's the code to have a template in HTML:
<script id="titleTemplate" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
<li>${Name}</li>
</script>
___________
// Compile the inline template as a named template
$( "#titleTemplate" ).template( "summaryTemplate" );
function renderList() {
// Render the movies data using the named template: "summaryTemplate"
$.tmpl( "summaryTemplate", movies ).appendTo( "#moviesList" );
}
It's in a <script>
tag, because that's not visible by default.
Note the type="text/x-jquery-tmpl". If you omit that, it will try to parse it as JavaScript(and fail horribly).
Also note that "loading from a different file" is essentially the same as "reading a file" and then "loading from a string".