Comments on: Chain.js: jQuery Data Binding Service

By: Polaris431

Polaris431 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:34:06 +0000

I don’t find this solution particularly well for templating. As far as I am concerned, a template engine should really do nothing more than replace placeholders with values. If I want sorting functionality on items or UI markup, there are plenty of plugins for that. I also find it odd to use class property as a mechanism to identify and replace the inner html content of a tag. Classes are not meant for that purpose. If you need to use a property to identify tags that get their inner html replaced, create a unique property name like “FieldVal”.

By: ShawnS

ShawnS — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:24:14 +0000

Just a quick post to mention that there is an alternative templating solution.

jsRepeater is a templating solution that provides for binding to an entire hierarchy, alternation, output formatting as well as recursive databinding.

It has been created to be easy to use with the minimum amount of javascript. Let’s face it, a template is supposed to allow us to say “I want this here” instead of having to write javascript that says “Put this there”.

If you would like to check it out there is a site dedicated to it at:
http://jsrepeater.devprog.com/

By: diyism

diyism — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:05:27 +0000

Guys, why not give a try to “jQuery micro template”?
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/micro_template
It’s more flexible than Chains.js, and need not seperate template container like Trimpath etc.
Example:





Bid price:



var data5=[{bid:2.3}, {bid:5.3}, {bid:0.9}];

$('#test5').drink(data5);

By: rubyred

rubyred — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:01:55 +0000

This looks great! I wonder if I could hook this up with taffydb…

By: zwaugh

zwaugh — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:05:07 +0000

Really nice piece of code. Just what I was looking for. Already started to implement it in a project. Thanks!

By: tidelipop

tidelipop — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:37:46 +0000

I haven’t tried it yet, but by just looking at the demos I can say that this is a great piece of code you’ve written! I’m sure it will be very useful for me. I can see it used in a very flexible selectbox, with filtering etc…
Thank you!

By: rizqi

rizqi — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:36:27 +0000

@jlbruno
Chain.js doesn’t have anything to do with styling. The inline styles are only in the demo, because of the limitation of the wiki at the github.

By: jlbruno

jlbruno — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:27:55 +0000

Looks interesting, but what’s with all the inline styles it’s creating??

By: Iumentum

Iumentum — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:19:30 +0000

Really nice work!
Will for sure use this in many of my future projects.
Thanx for sharing!

By: Nosredna

Nosredna — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:54:10 +0000

That’s pretty neat. I like it. Nice and simple.