A modular (AMD) template file loader for for example underscore.js

Templater.coffee

/*
   A modular (AMD) template file loader for for example underscore.js.

   You can use the templater to load up html files as a string in order to use them as templates
   for your client side javascript templating. 

   Pay notice to the 'base_path'. Set this to where your templates reside. The path below is
   assuming a Rails application.

   You could also not use the base path and just pass it in fully every time.

   The script will return an object called whatever you want, then you can call the 'get'
   method on that returned object and pass in the name of the template that you want.
 
   I have added the extension '.tpl.html' to all my templates:
  
   assets/
      app/
        templates/
             todos.tpl.html
             todo.tpl.html
             task.tpl.html
    etc...
*/

define [], ->
  template = (-> 
   _private =
      base_path: '/assets/app/templates/'
      get: (templateName) ->
        return jQuery.ajax 
            url: _private.base_path + templateName + ".tpl.html"
            type: 'get'
            dataType: 'text'
            async: false
        .responseText
        
    get: (args) ->
        args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments)
        if args[0]
          return _private.get(args[0])

  )();

  return template

ze_non_amd.coffee

# The non-modular version of it.
  window.templater = (->
    _private =
      base_path: '/assets/pos/templates/'
      get: (templateName) ->
        return jQuery.ajax 
            url: _private.base_path + templateName + ".tpl.html"
            type: 'get'
            dataType: 'text'
            async: false
        .responseText
        
    get: (args) ->
        args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments)
        if args[0]
          return _private.get(args[0])
  )();