handlebars-rust

Rust templating with Handlebars.

• travis-ci:
• crates.io: handlebars
• document: rust-doc

Warning: This project, like rust, is in its early stage. Breaking changes are constantly introduced.

Why Handlebars?

It's my favorite templating tools by far. I used it in Delicious.com as javascript-side template in 2013. Also I maintained a Clojure wrapper for Handlebars.java, hbs. And you may notice the close relationship between Ember.js and Rust community, handlebars is the default templating language of Ember.js framework, which powers crates.io.

Reasons I prefer Handlebars:

• Never ruin your Rust with HTML
• Never ruin your HTML with Rust
• Templating without reuse mechanism is shit
• Templating wihtout customization is nothing but shit

Handlebars provides:

• Separation of Rust and HTML
• A few control structures makes templating easier
• Few control structures stops you to put logic into templates
• Template reuse with include, partial and block
• Customize template behavior with helper

Limitations:

• As a static typed language, it's a little verbose to use handlebars
• You will have to make your data ToJson-able, so we can render it.

Usage

Check examples in the source. The example shows you how to:

• Create a Handlebars and register the template from files
• Create a custom Helper by impl HelperDef, and register it
• Render something
• Make your custom struct ToJson-able.

Run cargo run --example render to see results. (or RUST_LOG=INFO cargo run --example render) for logging output.

Handlebars for Iron

Handlebars is created to work with other web framework like Iron. You can easily integrate Handlebars as a middileware. Checkout feature/iron branch (will be moved to a standalone project) examples/iron.rs for how to.

Run cargo run --example iron and visit http://localhost:3000/ to see results.

License

MIT, of course.

Contact

Ning Sun (sunng@about.me)