I am learning at lot at the Dojo Developers Day one. Whenever I met Dojo folks I get the impression that there are 55 gems in the library that I have no idea about!
One of them is Neil Roberts implementation of the Django template language in JavaScript.
His work lives in dojox.dtl and you can check out a simple demo that renders, and rerenders a page with new content as you add it:
<head>
<title>Demo using dojox.dtl._Templated</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../../dojo/dojo.js"
djConfig="isDebug: true, parseOnLoad: true"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../../dijit/dijit.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
dojo.require("dojox.dtl._Templated");
dojo.declare("Fruit", [dijit._Widget, dojox.dtl._Templated], {
oldRepl: "some value for testing the old style template substitution",
_dijitTemplateCompat: true,
items: ["apple", "banana", "orange"],
keyUp: function(e){
if (e.keyCode == dojo.keys.ENTER) {
var i = dojo.indexOf(this.items, e.target.value);
if (i != -1){
this.items.splice(i, 1);
} else {
this.items.push(e.target.value);
}
e.target.value = "";
this.render();
dojo.query("input", this.domNode).forEach("item.focus();");
}
},
templateString: '<div><input dojoAttachEvent="onkeyup: keyUp"/><ul>{% for item in items %}<li>{{ item }} ${oldRepl}</li>{% endfor %}</ul></div>'
});
dojo.require("dojo.parser");
</script>
<body>
<div dojoType="Fruit"></div>.
</body>
</head>
</html>
You can also see another interesting example which is a blog view. Take a view source on that puppy.