express-plates-examples

This project goal is to provide very simple example for express-plate package.

express-plates

This small piece of code allow you to simply use Flatiron's Plate template engine in within Express framework.

Example - How to

Here is a simple example to render a /views/index.html

1var app = require('express')();
2require('express-plates').init(app);
3
4app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
5
6app.get('/', function(req, res) {
7    res.render('index', {
8        data: {
9            title: 'Plates is pretty cool, so is Express',
10            content: 'It seems to work quiet well'
11        }
12    });
13});
14
15app.listen(8080);

Detailed setup and options

Maps

init(app) returns the plates object so you can retrieve it and use Map() easilly :

1var plates = require('express-plates').init(app);
2
3// further in the app...
4
5app.get('/', function(req, res) {
6    var map = plates.Map();
7
8    map.class('content').to('content');
9
10    res.render('index', {
11        data: {
12            content: 'It seems to work quiet well'
13        },
14        map: map
15    });
16});