Compile on the fly about coffeekup

[ouvanous]

forget to tell that render a template in a template via coffeekup command line ?

[mauricemach]

Hi Samuel,

"compile automatically like coffee -cw" - I'm all for that. In fact the CLI tool needs some love. I'll work on it and post back here when it's ready.

nested rendering - You can certainly do this already, see this gist. You can even define it as a local (just render instead of @render), which I think is preferrable since the context (@) is a good namespace for data.

Just remember that this approach is synchronous, it's opening a file and blocking until the contents can be returned, so it's not a good fit for run time. But for the CLI it would certainly make sense, since blocking at build time is usually not an issue. So I think we could have the CLI tool include a render local like this for us automatically, even though it's not in the library itself. Is that what you're thinking too?

[ouvanous]

Hi Maurice and thanks for your response.
That is exactly what i need !
I want to use coffeekup for prototyping with less for css.
So i can use template and component (e.g nav.coffee, layout.coffee, ...) and generate (automatically) by command line (with watch options the html files)
The code with coffeekup is extremly clear : thanks ;-)
Is it possible to have html generated formatted correctly ? (with indent and new lines, ...)
I think that the code generated now isonly in one line ?
I don't know if you know less.app ? http://incident57.com/less/ but this is how i use css now it is extremly quick to prototype with it.
Based on you recommandations i've done this that is what i need for now
ck = require 'coffeekup'
fs = require 'fs'
sys = require 'sys'
fs.readdir('.', (err, files)->
files.forEach((f)->
if (f.indexOf '.coffeekup')
render f
watch f
)
)
render = (file) ->
code = fs.readFileSync file, 'utf8'
ck.render code, context: @

watch = (source, base) ->
fs.watchFile source, {persistent: true, interval: 500}, (curr, prev) ->
return if curr.size is prev.size and curr.mtime.getTime() is prev.mtime.getTime()
fs.readFile source, (err, code) ->
throw err if err
sys.log ck.render(code.toString(), locals: {render: render})

Many thanks,

Samuel

[mauricemach]

Just pushed a new version with:

-w: Watches and recompiles just like coffee

-u: Adds helper locals to your templates (only render currently)

-f: Formats the output HTML with line breaks. I'll add indentation too in the future. This option is also available from the API (CoffeeKup.render tpl, format: yes)

Please tell me if I got it right!

[mauricemach]

PS: This version is not on npm yet, to check it out you can clone the repo and run npm link . at the package dir.

[ouvanous]

Wow ! many thanks Maurice.
I will test that this evening but it seems very nice.
Once i 'll have little time I will try to make a little logo for coffeekup ;-)
Many thanks again !

[mauricemach]

Well that would be great!

I've been thinking of something along the lines of a coffee... cup... between brackets. But if you think it's too cheesy, I can certainly understand! =D