NodeJS Hypertext Preprocessor
NHP
NHP is a NodeJS based Hypertext Preprocessor. Compiles your templates
using eval function.
You can compile any plain text (Intended to be used alogn with HTML).
Njshp takes a .njshp file and processes it's Javascript code.
Example
Imagine that you have this index.njshp
<&
$scope.myAwesomeFunction = (a, b) => {
return a+b;
};
&>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
<& echo("Hello world!"); &>
</title>
<body>
<& echo("<h1>Hello there!</h1>"); &>
<hr>
<& echo(`3 + 4 = ${$scope.myAwesomeFunction(3, 4)}`); &>
</body>
</html>The client will only receive this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>
Hello world!
</title>
<body>
<h1>Hello there!</h1>
<hr>
3 + 4 = 7
</body>
</html>Usage
In your NodeJS server script you should import njshp
const njshp = require('njshp');Then use the .parse(data) method to parse the template file:
let template = njshp.parse(data.toString());njshp.parse(data : String [, params : Object]) : TemplateData
This will return an object with two fields: data and scope:
- data: Compiled data from the template.
- scope: Variables set within the template.
The system exposes two variables to the templates:
$scope$global
Where $scope remains only visible for the template and $global is maintained
across all the server execution.
$global is intended to hold data like the session and cross-page stuff.
$scope may be userfull to store variables, functions and inject parameters
like a POST or GET request data.
