rivets-server v1.0.2
rivets-server
Render Rivets.js templates on the server. Let Rivets pick up again on the client, if you want.
An experiment in isomorphic JavaScript.
Advantages:
- Friendly to search engines and browsers without JavaScript
- Potential for faster "time-to-content" in mobile experience
- Use the same templating language on client & server
By default, it currently uses my fork of Rivets, which supports
restoring bindings from Rivets on the client-side, such as {text} bindings and empty if and each bindings.
Vanilla Rivets can't currently persist or restore this information.
See my pull request at: github.com/mikeric/rivets/pull/253
Conforms to the Consolidate.js API. Uses jsdom to run Rivets against templates.
Installation
$ npm install rivets-serverUsage
It's easy!
var rivetsServer = require('rivets-server');
var template = '<span rv-text="name"></span>';
var locals = {
name: 'Anders'
};
rivetsServer.render(template, locals, function (err, html) {
// now, html == '<span rv-text="name">Anders</span>'
});If you want to render a full HTML document, pass the fullDoc option as follows.
var rivetsServer = require('rivets-server');
var template = '<!doctype html><html><body>...</body></html>';
var locals = {
options: {
fullDoc: true
}
};
rivetsServer.render(template, locals, function (err, html) { /* ... */ };You may need to provide modified Rivets adapters.
For example, if you have custom adapters for pub-sub on the client, but only have JSON models on the server,
then you might want to alias all adapters to the default '.' adapter.
var rivetsServer = require('rivets-server');
// ...
var locals = {
options: {
configure: function (rivets) {
rivets.adapters[':'] = rivets.adapters['.'];
}
}
};
rivetsServer.render(template, locals, function (err, html) { /* ... */ };