can you run blade just on the client?

[nkhine]

hi, is it possible to compile all the blade templates and host these on say gh-pages as a static type site?

[bminer]

No. The Blade compiler is designed exclusively for Node.js; however, with a few tweaks, it could run on the browser, I suppose. The parser is browser-compatible out-of-the-box, but the compiler uses Node libraries like path and fs along with the require() function.

[bminer]

To answer your other question... "is it possible to compile all the blade templates and host these on say gh-pages as a static type site?"

Yes, you can compile templates with the Blade command-line tool and serve them as static files.

[nkhine]

great! what would be the command line to compile these templates? thanks

[bminer]

Output of blade --help:

  Usage: blade [options] source_path destination_path

  Options:

    -h, --help                output usage information
    -V, --version             output the version number
    -R, --render              renders the template and outputs HTML (default)
    -C, --compile             compile-only: output the compiled template
    -l, --locals <str>        JSON string to be used as the locals object
    -L, --locals-file <file>  require() path to a module exporting locals obj
    -o, --compile-opts <str>  JSON string to be used as the compiler's options
    -d, --debug               sets the compiler's debug option
    -m, --minify              sets the compiler's minify option
    --no-include-source       clears the compiler's includeSource option

Renders or compiles Blade templates.

If a filename is `-` instead of an actual path, read from standard input or
write to standard output.
includeSource compiler option is set by default.

Examples:

        Render a Blade template to stdout from stdin using the local variables
        exported in a Node module (i.e. ./locals.js):
        $ blade -L ./locals - -

        Render a Blade template to stdout from stdin using the locals provided
        $ blade -l '{"author":"Blake Miner"}' - -

        Compile foo.blade and output the minified template to stdout:
        $ blade -C -m foo.blade -

        Compile and minify an entire directory of *.blade files:
        $ blade -C -m ./views ./public/views