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PagePress - NodeJS Template Engine

`page-press` takes static html file, plugs whatever you want inside and sends it to the web browser.

Features:

Lightweight & easy to use
Caching support
Localization support
Works with express

QUICK START

Prepare the frontend index.html page:

<html>
    <body>
    <h1>greet-text</h1>
    </body>
</html>

greet-text is a placeholder. It will be replaced by a value when the browser sees it.

Prepare the backend index.js file:

const express = require('express')
const app = express()

const pagePress = require('page-press')
app.use(pagePress)

app.get('/', (req, res) => {

    let fileToServe = __dirname + '/index.html'
    res.render(
        fileToServe,                // template file
        {'greet-text':'Hello!'}     // placeholder bindings
    )

})

app.listen(80)

In res.render() we first specify the template file, and then a JSON object with the values we wish to bind to placeholders in index.html.

Do npm index.js and visit http://localhost from your web browser.

Adding multi-language support

Prepare your language file index.html.lang next to index.html:

{
    "default":{
        "greet-text":"Hello!",
        "original text":"replacement text"
    },
    "sp":{
        "greet-text":"Hola!"
    },
    "jp":{
        "greet-text":"Konichiva!"
    }
}

Pass your prefered language into the res.render():

res.render(
    fileToServe,    // template file
    {},             // placeholder bindings
    'sp'            // language
)

PagePress will read the .lang file and fill the placeholder with the specified spanish value. If you do not specify the language in res.render(). Not specifying a language in res.ender() will make PagePress use default fields in the language file to fill html placeholders.

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