This is a neat little HTML preprocessor from Giuseppe Gurgone. It has very few features, but one of them is HTML includes, which is something I continue to be baffled that HTML doesn’t support natively. There are loads of ways …
I had a fella write in to me the other day. He had some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and it just wasn’t behaving like he thought it ought to. The HTML had some placeholders in it and the JavaScript had …
Not long ago, I posted about PHP templating in just PHP (which is basically HEREDOC syntax). I’m literally using that technique for some super basic templating I needed to do on this very WordPress site. The main pushback was that …
PHP templating often gets a bad rap for facilitating subpar code — but that doesn’t have to be the case. Let’s look at how PHP projects can enforce a basic Model, View, Controller (MVC) structure without depending on a purpose-built …
You know those super cool backticks-for-strings in new JavaScript?
let emotion = `happy`;
let sentence = `Chris is feeling ${emotion}`;Besides the variable interpolation in there being mighty handy, the do multi-line strings wonderfully, making them great for chunks of …
Nunjucks calls itself “A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript”, which sounds about right. It’s not intentionally super lightweight like Mustache or the slightly more robust (but still pretty light) Handlebars. It’s a full-on language, packed with all …
There isn’t one single approach with CSS Modules to making the JavaScript templates, the CSS files, or the build steps to make them work. In this post, which is part of a series on CSS Modules, we’ll look at one …
