Dynamic pages, filtering data, custom helpers, and other templating languages? about jus HOT 8 CLOSED

As far as manipulating data/context, support for handlebars-helpers was recently added, which includes lots of methods for array/collection manipulation. But this would take place in the handlebars template itself.

Unfortunately, it is not currently possible to add custom helpers (although I for one would say 👍to a PR that enables this).

from jus.

@djfdev Yeah, I saw that. Unfortunately the sort of pre-transforming/manipulation I'm talking about would not really be possible with simple helpers. 😞

from jus.

Hey @brandonweiss.

Thanks for considering Jus. I have to say though that I'm not actively maintaining it, and from the looks of it, it doesn't do many of the things you're looking for:

Dynamic pages

Nope.

Filtering data from a data file

Nope. You'll have to pre-filter it somehow.

Custom helpers

Answered above ☝️

Alternative templating languages

Nope. But in the past I was thinking https://github.com/tj/consolidate.js/ would be a nice way to do this.

All that said, if you feel like moving Jus forward an enabling it to do these kinds of things, I'm happy to help move that along.

from jus.

@zeke @brandonweiss It might be cool to introduce some sort of middleware API to jus. Not sure how this would look exactly, but I’m imagining some way to generalize building extensions and support for all these types of things without having to modify the jus repo directly.

from jus.

Potentially related to that ^ idea:

#24, #38, #41, #58, #76, #81

from jus.

middleware API to jus

I like this idea

from jus.

@zeke Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! I'm so embarrassed it took me this long to respond. 🙈

I waffled back and forth between proposing some small changes to jus and rolling my own project for some time, and eventually decided to roll my own. Mostly to learn, but also because I am equally opinionated and wanted to try doing a bunch of things in a different way.

Thanks!

from jus.

Thanks for following up 👍

from jus.