Trying my hand at node.js code with a documentation/readable code style.

load_template_style_1.js

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 */
var dust = require('dustjs-linkedin'),
    fs = require("fs"),
    Glob = require("glob").Glob,
    path = require('path'),
    async = require('async')

/* Load templates from the template folder, recursively.
 * Templates are loaded asynchronously and with
 * no guaranteed order. We can use async.forEachSeries
 * if we need to guarantee order (which I'll be using elsewhere).
 */
function load_templates(finished) {
  new Glob("templates/**/*.html", {mark:false}, function(er,matches) {
    async.forEach(matches,
      /*iterator*/function(file,completed) {
        fs.readFile(file, function(err,data) {
          name = file.substring("templates/".length).replace(".html","")
          dust.loadSource(dust.compile(String(data),name))
          completed(null)
        })/*fs.readFile*/
      }/*iterator*/,
      finished
    )/*async.foreach*/
  })/*glob*/
}/*load_templates*/

load_templates(function(err) {
  console.log("Finished loading templates")
  dust.render("app1/index",{},function(err,out) {
    console.log(out) // => <span>hello world</span>
  })/*dust.render*/
})/*load_templates*/