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Artless and small template library for server-side rendering.

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artless-template

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Artless and small template library for server-side rendering.

Artless-template allows to generate HTML, using template files or/and natively Python objects. The library encourages approaches like HTMX and No-JS.

Features:

  • Small and simple code base (less than 200 LOC).
  • No third party dependencies (standart library only).

Table of Contents:

Install

$ pip install artless-template

Usage

Basically, you can create any tag with any name, attributes, text and child tags:

from artless_template import Tag as t

div = t("div")
print(div)
<div></div>

div = t("div", attrs={"class": "some-class"}, text="Some text")
print(div)
<div class="some-class">Some text</div>

div = t(
    "div",
    attrs={"class": "some-class"},
    text="Div text",
    children=[t(span, text="Span 1 text"), t(span, text="Span 2 text")]
)
print(div)
<div class="some-class"><span>Span 1 text</span><span>Span 2 text</span>Div text</div>

button = t("button", attrs={"onclick": "function() {alert('hello');}"}, text="Say Hello")
print(button)
<button onclick="function() {alert('hello');}">Say Hello</button>

Template and tags usage

Create templates/index.html with contents:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <title>@title</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <main>
        <section>
            <h1>@header</h1>
            <table>
                <thead>
                    <tr>
                        <th>Name</th>
                        <th>Email</th>
                        <th>Admin</th>
                    </tr>
                </thead>
                @users
            </table>
        </section>
    </main>
  </body>
</html>
from typing import final
from pathlib import Path
from random import randint
from dataclasses import dataclass
from artless_template import read_template, Tag as t

TEMPLATES_DIR: Path = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "templates"

@final
@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True, kw_only=True)
class UserModel:
    name: str
    email: str
    is_admin: bool


users = [
    UserModel(
        name=f"User_{_}", email=f"user_{_}@gmail.com", is_admin=bool(randint(0, 1))
    )
    for _ in range(10_000)
]


users_markup = t(
    "tbody",
    children=[
        t(
            "tr",
            children=[
                t("td", text=user.name),
                t("td", text=user.email),
                t("td", text="+" if user.is_admin else "-"),
            ],
        )
        for user in users
    ],
)

context = {
    "title": "Artless-template example",
    "header": "Users list",
    "users": users_markup,
}

template = read_template(TEMPLATES_DIR / "index.html").render(**context)

Template and components usage

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  ...
  <body>
    <main>
      @main
    </main>
  </body>
</html>
from artless_template import read_template, Component, Tag as t

...

class UsersTableComponent:
    def __init__(self, count: int):
        self.users = [
            UserModel(
                name=f"User_{_}", email=f"user_{_}@gmail.com", is_admin=bool(randint(0, 1))
            )
            for _ in range(count)
        ]

    def view(self):
        return t(
            "table",
            children=[
                t(
                    "thead",
                    children=[
                        t(
                            "tr",
                            children=[
                                t("th", text="Name"),
                                t("th", text="Email"),
                                t("th", text="Admin"),
                            ]
                        )
                    ]
                ),
                t(
                    "tbody",
                    children=[
                        t(
                            "tr",
                            children=[
                                t("td", text=user.name),
                                t("td", text=user.email),
                                t("td", text="+" if user.is_admin else "-"),
                            ],
                        )
                        for user in self.users
                    ]
                )
            ]
        )

template = read_template(TEMPLATES_DIR / "index.html").render(main=UsersTableComponent(100500))

Asynchronous functions

The library provides async version of io-bound function - read_template. An asynchronous function has a prefix and called aread_template.

from artless_template import aread_template

template = await aread_template("some_template.html")
...

Performance

Performance comparison of the most popular template engines and artless-template library. The benchmark render a HTML document with table of 10 thousand user models.

Run benchmark:

$ python -m bemchmarks

Sorted results on i5 laptop (smaller is better):

{'mako': 0.05390851100673899, 'jinja': 0.25190652400488034, 'artless': 0.4437121729715727, 'dtl': 1.03557736199582}
  1. Mako (0.05390 sec.)
  2. Jinja2 (0.25190 sec.)
  3. Artless-template (0.44371 sec.)
  4. Django templates (1.03557 sec.)

The performance of artless-template is better than the Django template engine, but worse than Jinja2 and Mako.

Roadmap

  • Simplify the Tag constructor.
  • Create async version of read_template() - aread_template().
  • Cythonize CPU/RAM-bound of code.
  • Write detailed documentation with Sphinx.

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