SharkDart

A small template engine built for dart.

Simple rules:

The main symbol used in the SharkDart is @. There are several simple rules:

1. @ escape: @@ -> @

2. expression

   1. simple: @name, or @{name}
   2. complex: @{name.toLowerCase()}

3. tag

   1. param list: @author(String name: 'Freewind', love: 'programming') { Thanks for PetitParserDart! }
   2. expression: @if(a==b) { <div>Hello</div> }
   3. no-params: @markdown { **hello** }
   4. no-body: @include(a.txt)

4. plain-text tag

   Use @! instead of @, the content of block will be transformed, e.g.

    @!dart {{{{{{
       // here are some dart code
       String hello() {
           print('Hello, world!');
       }
    }}}}}}
   

   You can repeat { and }, to make unique start and end of the block. PS: The same to normal tags @tag {{{ .. }}}

Compiled to dart code

SharkDart is flexible, we can use dart code in template, by:

@!dart {
    // you dart code
}

But since dart doesn't support eval code dynamically, shark template have to be compiled to dart code, and invoked as functions in our program.

Say there is a hello.shark, which will be compiled to hello.dart, and we will invoke it like:

// import generated hello.dart from somewhere
import 'hello.dart' as hello;
String result = hello.render({name: 'world'});

Built-in tags

• @params(String user, List<String> friends)
• @extends(./layout, user: 'Shark')
• @renderBody()
• @if(name=='Shark') { ... }
• @elseif(name=='Dart') { ... }
• @else { ... }
• @for(user: users, separator: ',') { ... }
• @render(./another, title: 'Left') { ... }
• @!dart { ... }
• @!plainText(trim:true) { ... }

You can see the usage in the 'test/templates/tags' directory.

Thanks

Thanks for the great parser PetitParserDart, and the author @renggli