Great stuff. cc Wikidata, I know they were interested in replacing
their custom template engine...
I will respond to Krinkle's review for the client side library today.
Jon
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
After 14 months of discussion, HTML templating is now
live in core
MediaWiki. Currently only the server-side implementation has been merged. A
client-side implementation has also been submitted, but is stalled in
Gerrit (
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/180647/).
You can now use Mustache templates in your extensions and core code by
calling TemplateParser->processTemplate(). Full documentation can be found
at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:HTML_templates.
There are three main impetuses for this new feature:
1. Improving the sanity and readability of MediaWiki code. Ideally, our PHP
code should have little or no HTML in it. We should strive to keep our PHP
interfaces high-level and with clear separation of concerns. We are a long
way from conforming to anything like an MVC pattern, but this brings us one
step closer to being able to achieve that. The work on OOjs and related
interfaces is another important component of this.
2. Standardizing our templating implementations. There are currently six
different HTML templating implementations in various MediaWiki
extensions.[1] Hopefully, we can now reduce that number.
3. Moving MobileFrontend into core. We are also a long way away from
achieving this goal, but now one step closer. MobileFrontend relies heavily
on HTML templating, so having this feature in core is a pre-requisite to
moving more MobileFrontend features over.
I know there is still disagreement about the specific implementation
details of this feature (such as the choice of Mustache), but this is just
the first iteration of this feature and I hope we can work together to
revise and improve it further.
1.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/HTML_templating_library…
Ryan Kaldari
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