Staggard

A minimal, yet streamable, tagged base HTML template language for deno.

API

  • html - tagged template literal function to declare simple minimal components
  • renderToString - renders given html template components to a string. The complete template will be resolved before
  • renderToStream - writes the template parts to the stream, once ready. Waits for async content, which results in iterative "write when ready" rendering.

Usage

To have a better understanding of how things work, please give a look to the examples. But the code below shows the basic usage:

import { html, HTMLTemplateGenerator, renderToStream } from "https://deno.land/x/staggard/main.ts";

const viewComponent = (content: HTMLTemplateGenerator) =>
  html`<p>${"hello"}</p> <p>${asyncFunc("world!")}</p>`;

await renderToStream(
  Deno.stdout,
  viewComponent,
);

The above results in proper stream rendering to the clients, allowing the browser client to show content, that is available already, and waiting for content, not yet available.

This allows some fancy stuff like aborting such calls, when they take too long, and replace them by client side islands, that translude that content at client time. (See the express example for more details about that.)

Tasks

Tasks can be invoked with deno task [TASKNAME]:

  • deps:load - loads dependencies to deno cache if deps.ts has beed updated remotely
  • deps:update - writes updated dependencies to deps.ts
  • run - kicks off the service
  • run:debug - starts the service in debug mode
  • run:example:synch - runs a synchronous rendering example
  • run:example:stream - runs a stream rendering example
  • run:example:express - starts an express app at localhost:3001, showing an example integration with fallback handling.

Settings

The project settings are set via environment variables. Please give a look to the .env.example file to see, which environment variables will be evaluated. To enable settings for your app, provide them in the run environment or create a .env file, likewise to the example file.

Testing

:)

deno test