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@@ -136,12 +136,9 @@ If you have a lot of separate templates, or a few large templates,
then it's a good idea to use a template cache.
A template cache will create templates as they are needed (also known as
-"lazy initialization"), so the page or application loads quickly. A
-template cache also caches instantiated (that is, created) templates for
-future use, so using templates from the cache is fast, too.
-
-Finally, template caches serve as a good repository for all of the
-templates in a script.
+"lazy initialization"), so the script loads quickly. A template cache
+also caches instantiated (that is, created) templates for future use, so
+that using templates repeatedly from the cache is fast as well.
Here's how you create a template cache:
@@ -157,8 +154,8 @@ Here's how you create a template cache:
// prints "hello <PAUL%gt;"
-Finally, template caches use their own set of custom filters by passing
-the custom custom when creating a template cache:
+Template caches use their own set of custom filters by passing a custom
+filter hash when creating a template cache:
// create template cache with a custom filter named "reverse"
var cache = LuigiTemplate.cache({
@@ -178,15 +175,39 @@ the custom custom when creating a template cache:
// prints "hello %gt;LUAP<"
+A template cache is also a convenient way to group all of the templates
+in a script together:
+
+ // add global filter named "reverse"
+ LuigiTemplate.FILTERS.reverse: function(s) {
+ var cs = (s || '').split('');
+ cs.reverse();
+ return cs.join('');
+ };
+
+ // create template cache
+ var TEMPLATES = LuigiTemplate.cache({
+ upper: 'hello %{name | uc | h}',
+ reverse: 'hello %{name | reverse | h}',
+ });
+
+ // run the upper and reverse templates above and populate
+ // the elements #upper and #reverse with their respective
+ // result
+ ['upper', 'reverse'].forEach(function(id) {
+ getElementByid(id).innerHTML = TEMPLATES.run(id, {
+ name: '<Paul>',
+ });
+ });
+
Documentation
-------------
*TODO*
Tests
-----
-This `test/` directory contains the JavaScript test suite for the
-JavaScript implementation of [Luigi Template][], written in [Mocha][]
-and [Chai].
+This `test/` directory contains the test suite for the JavaScript
+implementation of [Luigi Template][], written in [Mocha][] and [Chai].
To run the test suite, load `test/test.html` in a browser.