Implement an HTML template engine by hand

Most of you are familiar with HTML template syntax, probably in the form of “{“, like Vue’s template syntax, which generates HTML by iterating through template strings:

<span>Message: {{ msg }}</span>
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In addition to this type, there is also a very common template markup syntax called erb-style, which is the one we will implement next.

Although we are implementing ERB style this time, this is just a tag, and if you understand the content of this article, you can switch to any tag method you like, for example, if you want to use {{, that’s fine.

However, this article uses the ERB style as an example.

Its syntax is also relatively simple, with two main expressions:

The < %... % >You can wrap a JavaScript statement:

The < %for ( let i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) { %>
  <% console.log(i) %>
<% } %>
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< % =... % >You can get variables in the current execution environment:

So let’s say we’ve written our template function, let’s call it template.

Our use will be:

const render = template('<div><%= data.name %></div>');
console.log(render({name: 'hi'})) // <div>hi</div>
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Let’s do another example using <%=… %>, which is a usage scenario in Webpack:

// @filename: webpack.config.js
plugins: [
  new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
    title: 'Custom template'.// Load a custom template (lodash by default)
    template: 'index.html'})]// @filename: index.html<! DOCTYPE html><html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
    <title><%= htmlWebpackPlugin.options.title %></title>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>
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After the above examples, we must be clear about the ERB style template is right?

In addition to the two tag syntax mentioned above, there are other tags, such as <%-… %>, in fact, its conversion principle and <%=… %> is the same, but the inner HTML string is escaped, but this article doesn’t explain how to escape HTML strings, so we’ll skip that notation. This article is recommended for those who want to understand how it works

Now let’s implement an ERB style template engine.

Ps: The following code is the underscorejs _. Template approach, but skips compatibility for some boundary cases.

We have an index.html file:

<! DOCTYPEhtml>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title></title>
</head>

<body>
  <script id="templ" type="text/html">The < %for ( var i = 0; i < data.list.length; i++ ) { %>
      <li>
          <a data-id="<%= data.list[i].id %>">
              <%=data.list[i].name %>
          </a>
      </li>The < %} % ></script>
  <script src="./template.js"></script>
</body>

</html>
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First, we get this template:

let content = document.querySelector('#templ').innerHTML
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What is at the heart of our template engine? It’s the use of new Funtion. In fact, we can construct a function as follows:

const print = new Function('str'.'console.log(str)')
print('hello world') // hello world
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It is equivalent to:

const print = function (str) {console.log(str)}
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With this magical feature, we wondered if we could convert the above template into a string of legitimate JavaScript code, called string X.

So can we make a template engine?

new Funtion('data', x);
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The answer is: yes, that’s what we’re going to do.

Now the key to the problem is how do we convert the content value into a string of JavaScript code.

<%for ( var i = 0; i < data.list.length; i++ ) { %>
  <li>
      <a data-id="<%= data.list[i].id %>">
          <%=data.list[i].name %>
      </a>
  </li>
<% } %>
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We can:

Use a regular/<%=([\s\S]+?) %>/gMatch to the< % =... % >Formatted string
Use a regular/<%([\s\S]+?) %>/gMatch to theThe < %... % >Formatted string

Note that the second re contains the first, so we must replace the first re first.

If we match <%=… %>, we will change it to: ‘+\n… +\n’

content = content.replace(/<%=([\s\S]+?) %>/g.function(_, evaluate) {
 return "'+\n" + evaluate + "+\n'"
})
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B: well… A little weird? That’s all right. Read on.

Next, we match <%… % >.

Change it to: ‘; \n … \ n_p + = ‘.

content = content.replace(/<%([\s\S]+?) %>/g.function(match,interpolate) {
  return "'; \n" + interpolate + "\n_p +='";
})
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Isn’t it a bit presentable now? But this isn’t legitimate JavaScript code yet.

We also need to add something to the end of it.

Add let _p = ” to the header; \nwith (data){\n_p+=’}return _p ‘;

This is almost presentable, but there is a problem. Look at line 5 in the figure above, because there is a \n character at the end of the line, so it wraps after ‘.

But in JavaScript, line breaks are not allowed, and if we copy this code to the console, we will still get an error.

We can either think about changing ‘to ES6’s template string syntax, or we can think about handling special characters like this, so let’s go special.

If we use an editor to write two lines of code in a JS file:

const a = 1;
const b = 2;
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It’s really stored in a file that looks more like this: const a = 1; \nconst b = 2; . To preserve \n’s original appearance in the string, we need to escape it. When we say ‘const a = 1; \\nconst b = 2; ‘represents the actual stored result above.

And \n also have the following, a unified table:

Escape character	To translate into
‘	\ `
\	\ \
\r	\\r
\n	\\n
\u2028	\\u2028
\u2029	\\u2029

At the code level, it looks like this:

var escapes = {
  "'": "'".'\ \': '\ \'.'\r': 'r'.'\n': 'n'.'\u2028': 'u2028'.'\u2029': 'u2029'
};

var escapeRegExp = /\\|'|\r|\n|\u2028|\u2029/g;

function escapeChar(match) {
  if (match === "'") {
    return "\ '" 
  }
  return '\ \' + escapes[match];
}
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Notice that the escapeChar function is specially compatible with the single quotation mark, because it is different from the others. Compared to our column table, its conversion result is preceded by only one \, but we can also remove this, that is to use the single quotation mark. Since “\'” equals “\ \ “, the code can drop the if statement and write:

function escapeChar(match) {
  return '\ \' + escapes[match];
}
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Given the unique nature of \ as a translation sequence, the second entry of our escapes object actually represents one \ and the result of our escapes actually represents two \:

byte[] byteArray1 = "\ \".getBytes();
byte[] byteArray2 = "\ \ \ \".getBytes();
System.out.println(byteArray1) / / [92]
System.out.println(byteArray2) / / [92, 92]
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After we get the content at the beginning and add the logic to handle the translation sequence, look at the final result:

content = content.replace(escapeRegExp, function(match) {
  return escapeChar(match);
}
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There is no problem, and we can safely pass it to the second parameter of the new Function.

const render = new Function('data', content);
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Calling our render function later would do this:

render({
    list: {name: 'Bob', id: 1}
})
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We can get the following result:

Perfect. Logic we’re finally done.

Underscore does the same thing, but does it more succinctly.

<%=… <%=… %> <%… %> get rid of it, and then refine the header and tail of the code.

It uses a different re, /<%=([\s\ s]+?). %>|<%([\s\S]+?) % > | $/ g, the key point is here.

Underscore just needs to iterate over once and hit <%=… %> or <%… After %>, the special characters from the end of the last matching result to the end of the current matching result are processed, and then the syntax of the template to be matched is determined, and the sequence is iterated until the end of the string is matched.

Some of you might wonder, does this match last? If our template ends with pure strings instead of <%=… %> or <%… %>, the re will not match the end? This is the underscore in order to add the regular last | $, ensure that can match in the end, so it can get rid of this a special characters also.

In addition, underscore handles the template syntax <%=… %> adds null and undefined. If it is either of these, our initial script will simply print the string ‘undefined’ or ‘null’. But underscore lets these cases output empty strings.

var interpolate = '123'; 
var __t;
(__t= (interpolate)) == null ? ' ' : __t
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To make it human, it’s equivalent to:

interpolate == null ? interpolate : ' '
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With these points in mind, it should be easier to look at the _. Template source code.

The _. Template function underscore () is used to specify the underscore function. The _. Template implementation should be easier to understand when broken down than when explained directly 🙂

In order to facilitate debugging, I put the executable code in the following, students need to take ~

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Thank you for reading

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Implement a template engine
Use of new Functon

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<! -- @filename: index.html -->
<! DOCTYPEhtml>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title></title>
</head>

<body>
  <script id="templ" type="text/html">The < %for ( var i = 0; i < data.list.length; i++ ) { %>
      <li>
          <a data-id="<%= data.list[i].id %>">
              <%=data.list[i].name %>
          </a>
      </li>The < %} % ></script>
  <script src="./index.js"></script>
</body>

</html>
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// @filename: main.js
let content = document.querySelector('#templ').innerHTML

var settings = {
  evaluate: /<%([\s\S]+?) %>/g,
  interpolate: /<%=([\s\S]+?) %>/g};var escapes = {
  "'": "'".'\ \': '\ \'.'\r': 'r'.'\n': 'n'.'\u2028': 'u2028'.'\u2029': 'u2029'
};

var escapeRegExp = /\\|'|\r|\n|\u2028|\u2029/g;

function escapeChar(match) {
  if (match === "'") {
    return '\ \ `' 
  }
  return '\ \' + escapes[match];
}

function template(text) {
  var matcher = RegExp([
    (settings.interpolate || noMatch).source,
    (settings.evaluate || noMatch).source
  ].join('|') + '| $'.'g');

  var index = 0;
  var source = "__p+='";
  text.replace(matcher, function (match, interpolate, evaluate, offset) {
    source += text.slice(index, offset).replace(escapeRegExp, escapeChar);
    index = offset + match.length;

   if (interpolate) {
      source += "'+\n((__t=(" + interpolate + "))==null? '':__t)+\n'";
    } else if (evaluate) {
      source += "'; \n" + evaluate + "\n__p+='";
    }

    return match;
  });
  source += "'; \n";

  var argument = 'data';
  source = 'with('+ argument + '||{}){\n' + source + '}\n';

  source = "var __t,__p='';" +
    source + 'return __p; \n';

  var render;
  try {
    render = new Function(argument, source);
  } catch (e) {
    e.source = source;
    throw e;
  }

  var template = function (data) {
    return render.call(this, data);
  };

  return template;
}

const render = template(content);

var list = [
  {name: 'Bob'.id: 1},
  {name: 'Jack'.id: 2},]console.log(render({
  list
}))
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Implement an HTML template engine by hand

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