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Dust is a JavaScript templating engine.

Dust is a JavaScript templating engine designed to provide a clean separation between presentation and logic without sacrificing ease of use. It is particularly well-suited for asynchronous and streaming applications.

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Choosing the right UI templating tool - dust.js?

I work on a large Java based web application, it has been built up over the past 5 or so years - the UI needs an overhaul / to be largely re-written. We are investigating the available UI tools/libraries/frameworks to use and have come across…
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What is server side rendering of javascript?

Some javascript frameworks like Dust.js claim that they ALSO support server-side rendering (in addition to client side rendering) as well. Can someone explain how does this work? My understanding is that the JS is always executed in the browser…
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Is it possible to render dust.js templates synchronously?

I am trying to write an adapter for a client-side HTML/JS templating system to use dust.js under the hood. Unfortunately the API expects render operations to occur synchronously: the rendered output should be returned from the render() call. Dust.js…
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Basic Example of Client Side Templating with Dust.js

This is my first foray into client-side templating and I want to make sure I'm understanding it and using it correctly. After reading this LinkedIn engineering blog, I decided to go with dust.js rather than mustache or handlebars. Note that this…
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Static HTML compilation with partials using Grunt.js

I've been looking all over for something that will let me precompile static websites using Grunt. It needs to have partials, so I can include things like a common header/footer across the pages. So far, I've only really found Jade, which has a grunt…
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HTML template filled in server-side and updated client-side

I have a webpage with dynamic content. Let's say it's a product page. When the user goes directly to example.com/product/123 I want to render my product template on the server and send html to the browser. However, when the user later clicks a link…
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$idx and $len in a dust.js conditional statement

The documentation on dust is just awful, I've already perused everything I can possibly find and cannot figure out how this is supposed to work. I'm having this problem with the supposed special values $idx and $len, which, if I have guessed…
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What is the difference between angularjs and dust.js?

I am currently using the Backbone philosophy which involves dust.js for template style. Recently I came across AngularJS, which extends the HTML syntax with custom elements and attributes. Cons of Backbone+dust.js environment: Upgrading components…
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Dust if condition

I'm having trouble with a dust if condition. I have a partial that points to 2 different dust templates depending on the Country code {>"receipt/merchantInfo/merchantInfo_{countryCode}"/} I'm trying to make an if else condition that will figure out…
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how to use dustjs-linkedin as client side templating?

I get the idea of server and client side templating, but dust.js confuses me a little bit. In order to use dust.js for client side templating, you need three steps: complie the template load the template render the template Right? But where do the…
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Use dust templates with angular js

I am new to angularjs environment, I want to use angular using dust templates as the current application has dust templates but I could not find anything on how I can use my existing dust templates with angular js. The problem is dust templates have…
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Dust: difference between logic sections {?} and {#}

What exactly is the difference between {?} and {#}? -- After a little test, listing all truthy/falsy values for {?}, and comparing them to {#}: context: { values: [ // false '', "", false, null, undefined, [], //…
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Why should we wrap our templates inside script blocks?

Background All the JS template engines recommend putting your template text inside script blocks like so: