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joepie91 / express-server-side-rendering.md
Last active February 20, 2024 20:52
Rendering pages server-side with Express (and Pug)

Terminology

  • View: Also called a "template", a file that contains markup (like HTML) and optionally additional instructions on how to generate snippets of HTML, such as text interpolation, loops, conditionals, includes, and so on.
  • View engine: Also called a "template library" or "templater", ie. a library that implements view functionality, and potentially also a custom language for specifying it (like Pug does).
  • HTML templater: A template library that's designed specifically for generating HTML. It understands document structure and thus can provide useful advanced tools like mixins, as well as more secure output escaping (since it can determine the right escaping approach from the context in which a value is used), but it also means that the templater is not useful for anything other than HTML.
  • String-based templater: A template library that implements templating logic, but that has no understanding of the content it is generating - it simply concatenates together strings, potenti
@chichunchen
chichunchen / .gitignore
Created November 26, 2014 16:51
Git ignore binary files
# Ignore all
*
# Unignore all with extensions
!*.*
# Unignore all dirs
!*/
### Above combination will ignore all files without extension ###
@nicktoumpelis
nicktoumpelis / repo-rinse.sh
Created April 23, 2014 13:00
Cleans and resets a git repo and its submodules
git clean -xfd
git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -xfd
git reset --hard
git submodule foreach --recursive git reset --hard
git submodule update --init --recursive