Store a jsRender template in a separate js file

Question

Is it possible to store a jsRender template in a separate file?

I want to store it in a separate file and make a reference of it in my page.

something like this

<script id="templateName" type="text/x-jsrender" src="thisIsTheTemplate.js"></script>

I will apreciate any commemnts or suggestions.

Thanks

Answer 1

I recently ran into this problem myself. After looking through the jsRender code, and studying other javascript libraries, I decided to write my own library that would simplify loading external templates so that one could attach templates to a html page using the <link> tag and render them by simply including the .js file. If you would like to check it out, I have posted the code on github with examples:

https://github.com/stevenmhunt/tmpl.loader

This library works with jsRender, as well as any code capable of processing a template.

Enjoy!

Answer 2

Yes, you can accomplish this (I use this every time).

let's assume that you have your templates in a template folder and it is called, for example _productDetails.tmpl.html

in your page you use jQuery $.get() to pull it and load into the template, like:

var renderExternalTmpl = function(item) {

    var file = '../templates/_' + item.name + '.tmpl.html';
    $.when($.get(file))
     .done(function(tmplData) {
         $.templates({ tmpl: tmplData });
         $(item.selector).html($.render.tmpl(item.data));
     });    
}

and you pass an object item witch will contain all 3 properties, like:

renderExternalTmpl({ name: 'productDetails', selector: '#items', data: {} })

You can have a nice utilities class to hold all this:

var my = my || {};
my.utils = (function() {
    var getPath = function(name) {
        return '../templates/_' + name + '.tmpl.html';
    },
    renderExtTemplate = function(item) {

        var file = getPath( item.name );
        $.when($.get(file))
         .done(function(tmplData) {
             $.templates({ tmpl: tmplData });
             $(item.selector).html($.render.tmpl(item.data));
         });    
    };

    return {
        getPath: getPath,
        renderExtTemplate: renderExtTemplate
    };
});

and you can easily call my.utils.renderExtTemplate(item);