Question: API render

[hhsnopek]

With the API does render also take strings?

[malgorithms]

there's toffee.strRender, which takes a template string, a value dictionary, and a callback function.

[hhsnopek]

Figured it out, beautiful! Thank you :+1:

[malgorithms]

awesome. I was about to reply.

Here's a an example in CoffeeScript:

toffee = require 'toffee'

template = '''
<h1>Hi, #{name}</h1>

<p>Check out this math!</p>
{#
   for x in [0...10] {:
      #{x}+1 equals #{x+1}!
   :}
#}

'''

toffee.strRender template, {name: 'HHSnopek'}, (err, res) ->
  console.log res

If you're going to use the same template repeatedly, you can compile it separately, which will save you from recompiling each time. This has the added advantage that it doesn't use the callback technique (as it was designed for Express 1.0). I dunno where it is in your call stack but you might like it more.

template = '''
<h1>Hi, #{name}</h1>

<p>Check out this math!</p>
{#
   for x in [0...10] {:
      #{x}+1 equals #{x+1}!
   :}
#}

'''
renderer = toffee.compile template
console.log renderer({name: 'HHSnopek'})

It has the disadvantage that you'll have to try/catch.

[hhsnopek]

toffee.compile template {name: 'hhsnopek' } is valid?

[hhsnopek]

if it is, could you update your API docs? I'm working with nodejs btw

[malgorithms]

no, template, is just a string, not a function. coffeescript parses the other way. but yeah, in javascript, you could do:

var whatever = toffee.compile(template)({name:"HHS"});

[malgorithms]

also, check out the fourth item on this page in the wiki:

https://github.com/malgorithms/toffee/wiki/NodeJS-Usage

I forgot about that interface, and it might be ideal since it catches the errors for you. By the way, all these slightly different interfaces exist so that Toffee can be dropped into different publishing platforms like consolidated.js, express 1, 2, etc.

[hhsnopek]

I'm using coffeescript :smile: Thank you!

[malgorithms]

I was vague above about the parsing. This:

toffee.compile template {name: 'hhsnopek' }

parses function calls right to left in coffee. So it would call template({name:'h'}), and then toffee.compile on the output of that, which doesn't make sense, since template is a string not a function.

I think you'd want to use parens in this case, even in coffee:

toffee.compile(template)({name: 'hhsnopek' })