Dynamic Templates

Templating Specs
Use Cases

• provide templates to users for dynamic surveys whose data can be attached to registrations
• allow users to create their own registration templates
• allow users to add metadata to their project components
• easily allow for models to be populated using json

Frameworks should be

• logic-full
• well-maintained/active community
• easy to learn
• relatively lightweight
• customizable/easy to extend

Current Framework

Ember.js

Current Screenshots

• screenshots directory
• selecting an existing template from dropdown
• viewing example form
• example of dynamic interaction in form
  • start of dynamic interaction
  • finish of dynamic interaction

Chosen Framework

Knockout.js highly recommended, haven't finished reviewing all options though

Reviewed frameworks

• framework name
  • pros
  • cons
  • notes
• jade
  • pros
    • good documentation
    • good community, maybe not as active as knockout.js?
    • mixins
    • logic
  • cons
• knockout.js
  • pros
    • uses logic
    • really well documented, seems intuitive and customizable
    • active community: multiple posts per day on forums
  • cons
    • nothing, this is the platonic ideal of javascript frameworks
  • notes
    • just the templating/data-binding?
• javascriptmvc
  • pros
    • good documentation
  • cons
  • notes
• embeddedjs
  • pros
    • nice set of view helpers to build on
  • cons
    • sparse documentation
    • community not very active: only 27 issues in tracker, no mailing list activity since 2012 (and most in 2009/2010)

organize these

• serenade js
• http://canjs.us/#can_ejs
• http://jacwright.com/438/javascript-data-binding/
• Angular - just the templating/data-binding?
• Underscore templating + some sort of data-binding?

Commentary

Good post from 2011 from linked in compares a lot of different frameworks. The client-side templating throwdown: mustache, handlebars, dust.js, and more. They ended up choosing dust.js.