hogan-cached v3.0.0

hogan-cached

Express.js view engine that renders Mustache with Hogan.js and caches compiled templates for more speed

• Designed for Express 4.x
• Cache: Compiles once. Renders faster.
• Partials support
• Lambda support
• All of mustache(5) features

Examples

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.engine('html', require('hogan-cached'));
app.set('view engine', 'html');

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.render('index', {
        title: 'Hello World!'
    });
});

app.listen(80);

Partials

// Register globally
app.set('partials', {header: 'path/to/header'});

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.render('index', {
        title: 'Hello World!',
        
        // Register only for this render
        partials: {
            content: 'path/to/content'
        }
    });
});

{{> header}}
<div id="content">
    {{> content}}
</div>

Lambda

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.render('lambda', {
        // Use a function
        center: function() {
            return function(text) {
                return '<div style="text-align: center;">' + text + '</div>';
            };
        },
        // Or just a condition
        logged_in: false
    });
});

{{#center}}
I'm centered!
{{/center}}

{{#logged_in}}
<strong>You are logged in!</strong>
{{/logged_in}}

Options

Customizable Hogan.js options

// Sets the delimiters to <% %> instead of {{ }}
app.set('hogan options', {delimiters: '<% %>'});

Cache

You can clear the cache anytime with clearCache

var engine = require('hogan-cached');

app.engine('html', engine);
app.set('view engine', 'html');

// ...

engine.clearCache();

You can also disable the cache for dev environment

app.set('hogan cache', false);

More examples?

Check out test/test.js