I love me a good, simple, jokey template language. Reminds me of the one I made a few years back[1]. Everyone should write a small template language of their own - it's a neat parser-writing exercise, and the rendering implementation can be comparatively trivial (assuming you don't plan to actually use it in a place where rendering perf matters).
Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
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Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#12Nice, this reminds me of the Jade templating language [0], although after a bit of Googling I see it's now called Pug [1].
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#13Time to shill my own alternative. https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker No parser, just a bunch of JavaScript functions that nest nicely, to create dense and readable DOM generation code. Might be time for putting a 1.0 sticker on it. As for Bepis, the mechanism by which elements nest seem complicated, as far as I understand it is controlled by sprinkling , and . throughout the string, I don't get why this would be…
Why no examples in the readme?
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#14Time to shill my own alternative. https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker No parser, just a bunch of JavaScript functions that nest nicely, to create dense and readable DOM generation code. Might be time for putting a 1.0 sticker on it. As for Bepis, the mechanism by which elements nest seem complicated, as far as I understand it is controlled by sprinkling , and . throughout the string, I don't get why this would be…
It would be great for people just visiting DOM_Maker to be able to quickly see an example in the README file of the syntax etc.
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#15Time to shill my own alternative. https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker No parser, just a bunch of JavaScript functions that nest nicely, to create dense and readable DOM generation code. Might be time for putting a 1.0 sticker on it. As for Bepis, the mechanism by which elements nest seem complicated, as far as I understand it is controlled by sprinkling , and . throughout the string, I don't get why this would be…
Why no examples in the readme?
snap!
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#16Time to shill my own alternative. https://github.com/NoHatCoder/DOM_Maker No parser, just a bunch of JavaScript functions that nest nicely, to create dense and readable DOM generation code. Might be time for putting a 1.0 sticker on it. As for Bepis, the mechanism by which elements nest seem complicated, as far as I understand it is controlled by sprinkling , and . throughout the string, I don't get why this would be…
As someone else mentioned, everyone should do this. I've got a similar coffeescript one:
https://github.com/undecided/tg
(totally usable in vanilla JS too)
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#17Nice, this reminds me of the Jade templating language [0], although after a bit of Googling I see it's now called Pug [1]. [0] http://jade-lang.com/ [1] https://github.com/pugjs/pug
Pug is actually awesome. I use it daily with Vue and I just introduced it to a project I was put on recently.
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#18Any relation to the pronunciation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa1vXovXn-M ?
:-)
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#19Parenscript, but worse.
Re: Show HN: Bepis – Crazy Format for HTML+CSS in JavaScript
#20Pepsi? why that company!