Templating in Brython?

Hello guys, and congratulations for this great work: it’s a real pleasure to finally work with a comfortable language in the browser…

My question is about templating: in almost all apps I build client side, I need to format templates (walk over dicts, check conditions, replace values…).

Here is an example of such a template I used to code with Riot.js:

<ul>
    <li each={ tag in tags }>{ tag.text }</li>
</ul>

On server side Python, I usually use Jinja to achieve this.

How do you proceed in Brython code? Python’s string format() is a very limited solution (no loops, no conditions…). Importing Jinja in Brython program seems touchy…

Thank you very much in advance!

[benjaminrigaud]

I started evaluating Jinja2 on Brython: a few issues have been opened (and resolved) in the past weeks. I’ll continue my work as soon as possible.

A fork will be required: some features (like bytecode cache) will not be compatible with Brython.

[PierreQuentel]

After many trials and errors , I have a working version of the browser.template module (see the documentation). It is vaguely inspired by vue.js.

I have also added a version of the “sort table” demo using it, is is much more concise than the version with browser.html to generate HTML code.

Feedback is very much welcome. I will also post a message on the Google group.