werelax / link-tank

Some experiments with single-page apps

About this repo

This is the basic infraestructure to build the standalone favmonster web client.

Flow

Add your cofees or jss to application.js, your sasss or csss to application.css, run bundle exec shotgun server.rb to initalize the sinatra app that will precompile and serve everything nicely. The main HTML file is in views/index.haml. Don't spect to see many more files here, because the idea is to move to the javascript files as much as possible.

Embbeded Haml Templates

We are not using ECO any more. I prefer to write my layouts in a haml-style syntax. And I don't think that putting logic inside the javascript templates is a good idea...

As a way to solve the how-in-hell-I-put-haml-in-my-javascrip problem, I just hacked a little wraper around Haml that generates javascript strings with a mechanism similar to the JST's: just put your markup in a file ending with '.js.ehaml' and it will be magically available to you inside the global singleton T. The name of the template inside T will be the relative path to your template file (the same way JST does it). So, for example, the haml written in /assets/javascripts/templates/something/template1.js.ehaml will be avaiable in `T['templates/something/template1'] as a javasript string.