// JSON Jinja // a server/client templating system -- What is it? JSON Jinja is a templating language inspired by Jinja2 with the idea that a template should be able to operate on the same JSON data on the server and on the client with the same semantics. It follows largely the Jinja2 feature set but restricts and changes semantics to be better compilable to JavaScript and to better work on different execution environments. The end goal is to define the language so that it can be implemented in different languages without having to implement a whole virtual machine or something similar. This implementation however is written in Python based on my templatetk library and will generate JavaScript code for the client that can be run with a minimal runtime library. -- Why? To be able to use the same JSON data to render a template both on the server and the client. The idea is that you render the template on the server the first time the page is loaded and from that point onwards you only transmit JSON to the client and render on the clientside. If a browser does not have a proper history API or JavaScript one can continue to request new pages from the server and render them there. -- Requirements? Currently Python 2.6 and templatetk from my github repo. templatetk and this library are both evolving at the moment.