Locator-dust NPM

locator-dust

Dust template compiler for locator.

This component is a result of the integration between YUI and Locator component from Yahoo! to compile Dust' templates into YUI Modules that could be used on the server thru express and on the client thru YAF.

The beaufy of this is that you will NOT need to download the full dust parser component or the template itself, instead you use YUI Loader to load modules that will provision the dust templates in a form of javascript functions ready to be execute to produce a html fragment.

Installation

Install using npm:

$ npm install locator-dust

By installing the module in your express application folder, you should be able to use it thru Locator.

Usage

Integration with `locator` on the server side

Normally, you will plug the locator plugin exposed by locator-dust into the locator instance, and locator will be able to analyze every file in your express app, and it will compile any *.dust into a YUI module that can be used thru express-yui for example. The example below describes how to use the yui plugin with locator:

var Locator = require('locator'),
    LocatorDust = require('locator-dust'),
    loc = new Locator();

// using locator-dust yui plugin
loc.plug(LocatorDust.yui());

// walking the filesystem for an express app
loc.parseBundle(__dirname, {});

Server side with `express` and `express-yui`

You can try a working example here:

https://github.com/yahoo/locator-dust/tree/master/example

Client side with `yui`

On the client side, any Handlebars template will be accessible as well thru yui as a regular yui module. Here is an example:

app.yui.use('<name-of-app>-templates-bar', function (Y) {

    Y.Template._cache['<name-of-app>/bar']({
        tagline: 'testing with some data for template bar'
    }, Y.one('#container'));

});

In the example above, the <name-of-app> is the name specified in the package.json for your express application, and the template bar.dust will be rendered under the #container selector.

note: in the near future, Y.Template.render() will be the formal API instead of using the _cache object, which is protected.