Juho Vepsäläinen bebraw

(tl;dr DOM builders like [domo][domo] trump HTML templates on the client.)

Like all web developers, I've used a lot of template engines. Like most, I've also written a few of them, some of which even [fit in a tweet][140].

The first open-source code I ever wrote was also one of the the first template engines for node.js, [a port][node-tmpl] of the mother of all JavaScript template engines, [John Resig][jresig]'s [micro-templates][tmpl]. Of course, these days you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a template engine; one in eight packages on npm ([2,220][npm templates] of 16,226 as of 10/19) involve templates.

John's implementation has since evolved and [lives on in Underscore.js][underscore], which means it's the default choice for templating in Backbone.js. And for a while, it's all I would ever use when building a client-side app.

But I can't really see the value in client-side HTML templates anymore.

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Install MAPP (MAMP) stack on Mavericks using MacPorts

I keep most of my Apache/PHP/Percona (MySQL) configuration stuff in a local Git repository so I can track changes and I symlink to those from where they should be so you will see commands such as

 sudo ln -s ~/Documents/configs/PHP/fat-tony.local/php55.ini /opt/local/etc/php55/php.ini

If you don’t have a similar setup, just copy your configuration files to where they need to be.

I like to prepend some of the commands with time just for curiosity’s sake to see how long it takes.

	# Use git and git+ssh instead of https
	[url "git://github.com/"]
	insteadOf = https://github.com/
	[url "[email protected]:"]
	pushInsteadOf = "git://github.com/"
	[url "[email protected]:"]
	pushInsteadOf = "https://github.com/"

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>RequireJS</title>
	<script data-main="scripts/main" src="scripts/require.js"></script>
	</head>
	<body>
	<div id="coordinates">0,0</div>
	<div id="delta">0</div>
	<ul id="buffer"></ul>

	#!/bin/bash

	# Source: http://toomuchdata.com/2012/06/25/how-to-install-python-2-7-3-on-centos-6-2/

	yum groupinstall "Development tools"
	yum install zlib-devel
	yum install bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel
	wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
	tar xf Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
	cd Python-2.7.3

	var mongoose = require('mongoose')
	var mongoUrl = "mongodb://localhost:27017/test"

	var connectWithRetry = function() {
	return mongoose.connect(mongoUrl, function(err) {
	if (err) {
	console.error('Failed to connect to mongo on startup - retrying in 5 sec', err);
	setTimeout(connectWithRetry, 5000);
	}
	});

	window.onload = function() {
	var $rootElement = angular.element(window.document);
	var modules = ['ng', 'myApp', function($provide) {
	$provide.value('$rootElement', $rootElement);
	}];

	var $injector = angular.injector(modules);

	var $compile = $injector.get('$compile');
	var compositeLinkFn = $compile($rootElement);

	/*
	String interpolation method for underscore.js

	Usage:
	var props = {
	first: 'Jos',
	last: 'de Jong'
	};
	var message = _.interpolate('Hello $first $last, welcome!', props);

	"use strict";

	/** Query builder */
	function build_query(type, schema) {

	// Metadata for builder
	var _converters = {
	js:{
	or: function(x, y) { return '(' + x + ') \|\| (' + y + ')'; },
	and: function(x, y) { return '(' + x + ') && (' + y + ')'; },