Get Started

Install Swig

npm install swig

Create Your Template

<h1>{{ pagename|title }}</h1>
<ul>
{% for author in authors %}
  <li{% if loop.first%} class="first"{% endif %}>
    {{ author }}
  </li>
{% else %}
  <li>There are no authors.</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

Render Your Template

var template  = require('swig');
var tmpl = template.compileFile('/path/to/template.html');
tmpl.render({
    pagename: 'awesome people',
    authors: ['Paul', 'Jim', 'Jane']
});

The End Result

<h1>Awesome People</h1>
<ul>
  <li class="first">Paul</li>
  <li>Jim</li>
  <li>Jane</li>
</ul>

Features

• Incredibly fast!
• Available for node.js and major web browsers!
• Extendable and customizable.
• Express compatible.
• Object-Oriented template inheritance.
• Apply filters and transformations to output in your templates.
• Automatically escapes all output.
• Lots of iteration and conditionals supported.

Download For the Browser

Swig also works in all major browsers. Just download the following file and follow the Documentation.

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