Switch to use template library and JSON2

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FacetView is a pure javascript frontend for ElasticSearch.

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Switch to use template library and JSON2 #8

Closed rufuspollock closed 12 years ago

rufuspollock commented 12 years ago

While these do impose additional vendor dependencies they will simplify the code so greatly and improve its maintanability.

Question: which template library?

Ans: would have said jquery.tmpl but that is no longer blessed and is in fact deprecated. My best suggestion at this point is underscore template as that library is a standard utility library that is useful in its own right. Next best alternative would be mustache (?).

rufuspollock commented 12 years ago

Actually I'm against using a template library since it is so easy to template ourselves using classice regex. Suggest we adopt {{...}} for variables like mustache and keep things very simple. Do suggest we want to refactor to use a better template setup -- see #11.