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nicknem / express-server-side-rendering.md
Created December 15, 2016 15:20 — forked from joepie91/express-server-side-rendering.md
Rendering pages server-side with Express (and Pug)

Terminology

  • View: Also called a "template", a file that contains markup (like HTML) and optionally additional instructions on how to generate snippets of HTML, such as text interpolation, loops, conditionals, includes, and so on.
  • View engine: Also called a "template library" or "templater", ie. a library that implements view functionality, and potentially also a custom language for specifying it (like Pug does).
  • HTML templater: A template library that's designed specifically for generating HTML. It understands document structure and thus can provide useful advanced tools like mixins, as well as more secure output escaping (since it can determine the right escaping approach from the context in which a value is used), but it also means that the templater is not useful for anything other than HTML.
  • String-based templater: A template library that implements templating logic, but that has no understanding of the content it is generating - it simply concatenates together strings, potenti
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Last active August 29, 2015 14:25 — forked from rtt/gist:5a2e0cfa638c938cca59
example python tinderbot
# encoding: utf8 1,1 Top# encoding: utf8
import argparse
from datetime import datetime
import json
from random import randint
import requests
import sys
from time import sleep