Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: nunja
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: The unified templating framework for Python x JavaScript
Home-page: https://github.com/calmjs/nunja
Author: Tommy Yu
Author-email: tommy.yu@auckland.ac.nz
License: GPL
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: JavaScript
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
Requires-Python: >=2.7,!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*
Requires-Dist: Jinja2 (>=2.4)
Requires-Dist: calmjs (>=3.4.1)
Provides-Extra: dev
Requires-Dist: calmjs.dev (>=2.3.0) ; extra == 'dev'
Provides-Extra: rjs
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Provides-Extra: webpack
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nunja
=====

A minimum framework for building reuseable templates for consumption by
Python backends and JavaScript frontends.

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Features
--------

``nunja`` is a framework that offers developers a way to build templates
in Jinja that can be easily used from within Python and from the web
browser using JavaScript for the frontend user facing UI components.
This is achieved by making use of Jinja2 templates that can be rendered
using `Jinja2`_ for the Python side, and the `Nunjucks`_ JavaScript
package for the rendering on the client side.

The package leverages upon the |calmjs|_ framework for the management of
access to Jinja templates with associated JavaScript front-end libraries
embedded inside Python packages.

.. _Jinja2: http://jinja.pocoo.org/
.. _Nunjucks: http://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/
.. |calmjs| replace:: ``calmjs``
.. |nunja| replace:: ``nunja``
.. _calmjs: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/calmjs


Installation
------------

Currently under development; to begin, please clone this repository
first.

Requirements
~~~~~~~~~~~~

As this package interoperates with a number of software libraries, a
number of prerequisites are required for all the features to function
correctly.  At the minimum, Python 2.7 or 3.3+ must be available; for
the JavaScript/Node.js integration side, Node.js v4 or higher is highly
recommended, though testing shows that the core parts should run even
under Node.js v0.10.  However, the goal is to also make Node.js optional
for users of downstream libraries if they include the generated
JavaScript artifacts.  Tools to make this easy to do so will need to be
done for |nunja|.  For the web browser, only modern web browsers are
supported, please refer to the continuous integration configurations (in
brief: Firefox 31, Chrome 40, IE 11, Safari 9; alternatively, run the
tests against a target browser, if the tests passes it should work).

Before the installation, please have |calmjs| installed first so
that when ``python setup.py develop`` is executed at the root of this
package's repository, the appropriate metadata files defined by the
Calmjs framework will also be installed.  Failing that, |calmjs| should
also be installed automatically through ``setuptools``, however the egg-
info metadata will need to be regenerated by running ``python setup.py
egg_info``.


Usage
-----

A tutorial will need to be made.

Guidelines will be added as the system is formalized, and they follow:

- Similar to the standard |calmjs| system, with the difference being the
  molds system is optimised for the AMD framework as implemented by
  require.js, and so the option to build packages as AMD modules is
  permitted, though the standard CommonJS structure should work.

Shared templates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These are exposed through the ``nunja.molds`` registry as a complete
set that includes client side scripts.

Server-side only templates
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These are exposed through the ``nunja.tmpl`` registry, and is intended
for templates that generate the skeletal markup from which the molds may
be nested.

A more formal set of keywords may be developed in the future to better
facilitate the above process.

Currently, declaring templates under this registry will be useful for
providing static templates across Python package boundaries.


Deployment
----------

Generally, this involves building a standalone static requirejs AMD
artifact file which is then sent to the browsers used by the end-users
to be used in conjunction with the packages that provide the molds.
Such an artifact that has none of the default ``nunja.molds`` that are
provided as examples should be generated like so through this invocation
of the |calmjs| command:

.. code:: sh

    $ calmjs rjs --source-registry=calmjs.module nunja

The above command will produce a ``nunja.js`` in the current directory
that can be included in a ``<script>`` tag with the other AMD artifacts
that may contain the actual molds.

If one wishes to generate a complete artifact, and assuming the package
to be deployed also lists |nunja| as a Python dependency (here |nunja|
is simply used as an example), the following command can be invoked:

.. code:: sh

    $ calmjs rjs nunja

This will simply build the same thing but the raw template strings will
be included as is.  If they are to be compiled into JavaScript code, the
optional advice should be applied like so:

.. code:: sh

    $ calmjs rjs nunja --optional-advice=nunja

Alternatively, the nunjucks slim library can be bundled instead, which
will decrease the size of the final output, but the ability for dynamic
template compilation will be disabled on the client side.

.. code:: sh

    $ calmjs rjs nunja --optional-advice=nunja[slim]


Troubleshooting
---------------

Using ``--bundle-map-method=empty`` with the ``rjs`` tool will result in
this error message

.. code:: sh

    $ calmjs rjs nunja --bundle-map-method=empty

    Tracing dependencies for: /tmp/nunja/nunja.testing.js
    Error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'normalize' of undefined
        at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/nunja/node_modules/requirejs/bin/r.js:1221:35)

This is caused by the provided templates done through the ``text``
plugin which is not being provided.  To work around this, either ensure
the templates registries are NOT provided, or apply the optional advice
nunja[slim] to precompile the template and not include the raw source
template strings.  Alternatively, if the ``text`` module is to be made
available through a different artifact bundle for a given deployment,
the ``--empty`` flag may be employed to stub out the missing modules
completely, i.e.:

.. code:: sh

    $ calmjs rjs --empty nunja --bundle-map-method=empty


Contribute
----------

- Issue Tracker: https://github.com/calmjs/nunja/issues
- Source Code: https://github.com/calmjs/nunja


Legal
-----

The |nunja| package is part of the calmjs project.

The calmjs project is copyright (c) 2016 Auckland Bioengineering
Institute, University of Auckland.  |nunja| is licensed under the terms
of the GPLv2 or later.

Changelog
=========

0.1.0 (2020-09-18)
------------------

- Initial release.
- Provide a base registry for Python-only jinja template registry
- Provide a base registry for nunjucks/jinja compatible template
  registry.
- A basic rendering system for the artifacts captured by the above base
  registries.



