Kixx Templating

A simple and robust markup and text templating system for JavaScript environments.

Created by Kris Walker 2023 - 2026.

Principles

• No dependencies: A template engine is a low level primitive component which systems depend on and should NOT complicate matters by having dependencies itself.
• Minimal: The scope of supported capabilities is kept intentionally small.

Environment Support

Env	Version
ECMA	>= ES2022
Node.js	>= 16.13.2
Deno	>= 1.0.0

This library is designed for use in an ES6 module environment requiring Node.js >= 16.13.2 or Deno >= 1.0.0. You could use it in a browser, but there are no plans to offer CommonJS or AMD modules. It targets at least ES2022 and uses the optional chaining operator ?..

Node.js >= 16.13.2 is required for ES6 module stabilization and ES2022 support.

Note: There is no TypeScript here. It would be waste of time for a library as small as this.

Usage Documentation

See the docs/ folder for comprehensive docs.

Build & Test Commands

# Run linting and all tests
npm test

# Run linting only
npm run lint

# Run tests only (without linting)
node ./test/run-tests.js

There is no build step - this is a pure ES module library.

Architecture

Kixx Templating is a mustache-style templating engine with a three-phase compilation pipeline:

1. Tokenize (lib/tokenize.js) - Splits template source into tokens based on {{ }} delimiters and {{!-- --}} comments
2. Build Syntax Tree (lib/build-syntax-tree.js) - Parses tokens into an AST with node types: CONTENT, COMMENT, PATH_EXPRESSION, HELPER_EXPRESSION, BLOCK_OPEN, BLOCK_CLOSE, PARTIAL, ELSE
3. Create Render Function (lib/create-render-function.js) - Transforms AST into an executable render function that accepts a context object

Copyright and License

Copyright: (c) 2023 - 2026 by Kris Walker (www.kriswalker.me)

Unless otherwise indicated, all source code is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.