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Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

Hmm... the best way might be to put your template in a script tag.

<script id="template" type="text/x-squirrelly-template">
Your template here
</script>

Since the script type is unrecognized, calling innerHTML should give you the raw inner content :). Handlebars and others recommend using the <script> tag as well.
Let me know if this helps!

Aaron

@aarongerig

@nebrelbug Thank you so much! This solved my problem. Btw, awesome rendering engine you've written here. I enjoy using it :)

Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

@aarongerig I'm glad it fixed it! Thanks!

tabarra

@tabarra

Well, I just noticed that on the jump to v8 the filters are now also sanitized

so no "new line to <br>" filter

RIP

tabarra

@tabarra

I think you should provide some default filters

nl2br is a great one

Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

@tabarra oops, that was another unintended effect of https://github.com/squirrellyjs/squirrelly/releases/tag/v8.0.4 :grimacing:. The best option is probably to disable auto-escaping and move auto-escaping into defaultFilter (defaultFilter is still called before all other filters, which is slightly inconsistent)

As far as default filters, I think we probably want to keep the core library size down. However, it would be awesome if someone created a filter library that would load lots of helpful filters (like nl2br, join, first, etc.) into Squirrelly.

Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

@/all Hey everyone! Just wanted to share that Squirrelly is looking for a new lead maintainer: see squirrellyjs/squirrelly#210. As of October 28th, I will be unable to continue developing the project.

My plan is to have Squirrelly's API stabilized and well-tested by that time. We should also have fairly decent documentation, several plugins, and integrations with popular tools and server frameworks.

In case I'm unable to find a maintainer, I have backup plans to ensure that Squirrelly can continue to be developed (see the link above for more info).

Several of you on this chat have been influential in guiding Squirrelly's progress -- message me if you would like to become a maintainer! (In the link above, I listed a few maintainer requirements you should check first)

I've loved working with all of you throughout Squirrelly's development, and hope it has been a helpful tool. Best wishes to all of you!

tabarra

@tabarra

Congratz on your new job!

It will be sad to not have you on the frontline of this project tho :(

Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

Thanks @tabarra! I've enjoyed collaborating with you.

Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

If anybody would like to contribute to Squirrelly, I've added it to Code Shelter. They should be able to vet potential contributors and grant edit and release access :)

thearthouse

@thearthouse

why googlebot cannot render Sqrl content? on google search its only showing {{title}}.

Saia Fonua

@sfonua10

I'm new to squirrlleyjs, is there a way to log out data coming in to a page?

isgj

@isgj_gitlab

Hi does v7 support #elif (...)?

Ilan Levy

@ilanl

Hi guys, I really love this template engine, currently using it in Node. But is there a port in Python?

tabarra

@tabarra

@nebrelbug hey ben, i know you are not maintaining it anymore

but there is some high severity CVE for squirrelly

any chance of a fix?

Tom MacDonald

@tsmacdonald51

Does squirelly v8 support inline partials like Handlebars?

Kathrin De Cecco

@kathrindc

Hey everyone, sorry if it's a dumb question, but I'm trying to use JS-style fallbacks in my templates and I'm consistently getting bad template syntax errors. Any ideas how I could provide a fallback value for something? (eg. something.property contains null and I'd like to use an empty string as a fallback value so it doesn't print null in the rendered output)

Aaron

@aarongerig

@kathrindc You could define a custom „default“ filter, which either returns the given value or a passed fallback value if the original one is null.

Here‘s an example:

Sqrl.filters.define('default', (value, fallback = '') => value || fallback);

Kathrin De Cecco

@kathrindc

Ah okay, so I'm currently using squirrelly via express. Where would I need to define that helper?

Aaron

@aarongerig

Hmmm… anywhere you have access to the Squirelly library and before you actually render the template.

Kathrin De Cecco

@kathrindc

Yup, turns out the easiest way to use custom filters was to bypass the express integration completely. I tried passing the required module into app.set('view engine', Sqrl), but that expected a string. So I'll just use a wrapper module to pre-configure Squirrelly. Thanks a lot for the tip @aarongerig ^-^

Dave Myron

@contentfree

Is there a CLI for Squirrelly? I have a template in a file that I want to parse with Squirrelly (that will then be fed into an image rendering pipeline)

Abdullah Alharbi

@W2AlharbiMe

hello

i have quick question for the creators or for anyone that know the reason, why there's eta and squirrelly ?

why not only one template engine

Ilan Levy

@ilanl

Hi, I'm wondering if we can use squirrelsj to render a JSON as template ?

Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

Hey everyone, I'm back from serving as a missionary for 2 years.

@contentfree there isn't an official CLI.

@W2AlharbiMe eta is focused on embedded templating (using JavaScript syntax) while Squirrelly provides more features and a special syntax for more readability.

@ilanl yes, it's possible!

Sorry for the late replies ;)

activestylus

@activestylus

Two questions:
(1) I cant seem to find documentation on how to use extends, how hierarchy works or how to use layouts. Like, in EJS you have places you can yield content in the master layout, from the child template. Not sure if this is possible with squirrely?
(2) I see there is control over whitespace, but is there a way to minify the compiled html?
Thanks in advance

Ben Gubler

@nebrelbug

There isn't super good documentation about layouts, but you can poke around in the tests folder to see how it works. https://github.com/squirrellyjs/squirrelly/blob/master/test/templates/layout.sqrl is a good example.
You'll have to minify HTML using another tool.

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