Jaml: Haml in Javascript

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42 points·mcantelon··14 comments

I don't know if I'm the only one who finds this pattern of acting on the string representation of the function as being a bit distressing.

One the one hand it's a bit like using macros, on the other, there's clearly no first class support for it in the language, and the possibilities for breaking things horribly when your best tools are regexen seems high.

You're not the only one. This is an html builder library for Javascript, with very little to do with Haml.

Haml? Looks more like Markaby-inspired to me.

Agreed. It's based on nested method calls as opposed to a tab-indented markup language. It's not really appropriate to call it Haml in Javascript at all.

Dan Webb invented this in 2006, it's called Low Pro:

http://www.danwebb.net/2006/9/3/low-pro-unobtrusive-scriptin...

Dear driveby downvoter: did you even look at the syntax for Low Pro? It's exactly the same except it uses a $ so as not to pollute the primary namespace.

jaml + node.js + couchdb could make for an interesting web framework.

Nice! Looks like DOMPlate, Firebug's internal template system.

http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firebug-tutorial/extendin...

The fact that templates are functions that use actual parameters (rather than backdoor means like instance variables) looks to be a huge win for me.

There is also baconl http://github.com/cohitre/baconl

Why "cls" instead of "className"?

All programmers go through a phase of employing excessive brevity.

i've used jTemplates (jquery plugin: http://jtemplates.tpython.com/) which is far easier to maintain, as it's much closer to html templating than this

AppJet had this, except the tag functions were all caps.

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