I'm looking for a simple template engine that allows me to create snippets
for the header, footer etc.
Can anyone guide me on how to start here?
Many thanks!
I believe your referring to partials, there are countless libraries and frameworks that supply this functionality, here are just some of them...
EJS - This is now no longer maintained however it's functionality is still perfect as it comes, provides a simple partial engine and data visualisation.
Handlebars - Oh how so many frameworks use this library, fantastic bit of kit, however this has greater power than just simply loading other files.
AJAX - You can just load a basic HTML file via JQuery .load instead as per the documentation like this...
$( "#result" ).load( "ajax/test.html #container" );
Additionally any respected front-end framework will usually come packed with an engine to load partials with ease.
When you make your partials, be sure to prefix them with an underscore, this is good practice to allow other developers to recognize partials.
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I want to know how I can make my own blogger template to use for my blog. When I open HTML editor from Blogger the code seems to be a strange mix of HTML, XML and CSS. I also sometimes notice variables and other things. I want to know what language I could use to make a responsive website with CSS styles. I used to use pre-created templates from the internet but it seems better to get my own design and be able to modify it.
The Blogger.com which is a content management system that used itself for managing its content. Due to the related news, their backend (to see what backend is you can check the following link: Learn to become backend developer) is written in python and the frontend (to learn more about frontend you should check this out: Learn to become frontend developer) used HTML5, CSS3, and various open-source libraries of JavaScript.
But if you want to know what language you need to use to create a blog, I would say anything you feel more convenient with, that doesn't really matter to use which technology or framework, you can use blogger itself or other CMS creators like, WordPress, Drupal and so on, and also yes, you can build one from scratch with trending frontend CSS frameworks like these ones and JS libraries like these ones and at last backend frameworks like these ones mentioned here.
Also, you can find the best practices and examples in w3schools or css-tricks and some other known ones.
I've been struggling to understand Handlebars ever since I was introduced to it in class. I've researched different resources and videos (e.g., YouTube, StackOverflow, etc.) to try and learn more about it, but I still feel like I'm not getting it.
Could somebody please either explain to me what Handlebars is in their own terms or send me resources they found helpful when learning it?
Thanks!
handlebars.js is a templating engine which allows dynamic data to be mixed in with your HTML code. Templating engines were created due to complex projects requiring a lot of dynamic HTML manipulation. Previously, software developers created new chunks of HTML code and dynamically inserted them into the DOM using Javascript. This eventually became unwieldy and difficult to maintain. Also, it lead to repetition of code. To solve this issue, templating engines allowed one to create predefined templates to be used in multiple locations without repeating the code. Templates are like “macros”; wherever they are used, the code in them is inserted at that place. They also help to keep your html away from your javascript files, thereby increasing the readability and re-usability of your code. For a more comprehensive explanation see this blog post
The best resource to learn handlebars.js is their documentation
There is a course on Udemy that uses handlebarsjs and Node and Express and goes from pretty basic I think. This is it.
I am building a website where i'm looking to create html templates which contain placeholders where i'll be able to inject pages/content, menus, etc.... I really like AngularJS which has good support for this but am thinking that it might be a bit of an overkill for what i'm building. There is a chance some parts of the application will eventually be ripped out and run standalone and so dont want to tie the html/javascript to a library which requires so much framework specific syntax. Are there any other, simpler libraries, that will allow me to do this? thanks in advance
/Eric
KnockoutJS is pretty lightweight and also includes a templating feature.
I wouldn't just dismiss angularjs because it seems like a heavy framework. There are very simple ways to use it without using any of the "advanced" features like routing, creating services, creating directives, etc. You can simply have a controller and use the built in directives to do a lot of powerful things on a single page. Angular is also pretty small and is easily bootstrapped with the ng-app tag anywhere in your DOM.
My "Rails friends" have a situation when their UI designer is beginning his work on prototyping UI screens on his own - their Rails programmer is busy and is going to join this work later, probably much later.
I know, it is easy to ask UI designer the learn Rails rendering mechanism, so he could begin prototyping on Rails, but I am interested,
is it possible to setup views structure using partials (reusable pieces of HTML views) using just pure HTML, without any ruby code inside?
The only approach I see is to use SSI. Are there any other options?
What is needed is simply a possibility for one html-file could have a string like
<whatever include other.html ...>
which would include the contents of other.html inside its body.
This way, a future project can be divided logically on changeable/nonchangeable parts without any Ruby/Php code for partials.
UPDATE 1
The quoted wiki page about SSI has Client Side Includes section that suggests using object tag which seems to work
<object type="text/html" data="test.html"></object>
One suggestion is to use Sinatra, which is a simple and quick web framework for static sites.
It's easy to start using Sinatra even for a beginner. However, even if the UI man doesn't know and don't want to study any coding, he can still utilize it by planning the partial names and ask the developer to setup it for him. All he need to do later is to fill each blank templates and add JS CSS image assets.
Benefit of Sinatra:
Friendly to static sites
Simple to use
Lots of templating language to use, same as Rails
The partials/templates can be ported to Rails later with zero efforts!!!
I've been told I have to make a 100% HTML CSS Javascript site for a project at school. I'm used to the master pages of asp.net and I'm worried about how I'm going to do a huge website without the use of them.
After thinking about it for a while, I came up with what I think is an ok solution. Using iframes...
Would it be safe to make one page that has an iframe instead of a content area to connect to other pages to make it appear as if we used a master page?
It seems kind of hacked up so, is there a better way? Is there any software (hopefully free) that provides a decent system of master pages?
Thanks!
You could use a js-based template engine, such as jQuery templates.
You could just dreamweaver and use dreamweaver templates.
Template-Toolkit includes the ttree utility, which will do what you want. You can build the site from templates to get plain, static HTML documents. Since this takes place at build time, you do not need anything like ASP / PHP / Perl / etc on the server at runtime.