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Sometimes you want to be able to view rendered HTML templates without
having a big Apache or Catalyst application do it.  You might want to
play with a fun new engine you heard about, or perhaps you want to
give your web designer the templates and a renderer to work on while
on a plane.

Well, now you can install
L<App::TemplateServer|http://search.cpan.org/~jrockway/App-TemplateServer-0.02/lib/App/TemplateServer.pm>
from the CPAN and do just this.

Let's say you have a TT template like this in C</myapp/templates>:

  [%# foo.tt -%]
  Hello, [% there %]!

To see this rendered with C<App::TemplateServer>, just create a YAML
file containing your variables:

  ---
  there: world

Then start up a server:

  template-server --docroot /myapp/templates --data vars.yml

Then browse to L<http://localhost:4000/>.  There you'll see a listing
of the available templates.  Click through to
L<http://localhost:4000/foo.tt>, and you'll see:

  Hello, world!

You can obviously use more complex templates than this.  The data file
parser uses C<Package::FromData> to create packages with mocked
methods and class data for you, so you can easily emulate Catalyst or
Jifty environments and give the templates some good test data to work
with.

Right now there are TT, Mason, HTML::Template, and TD backends on the
CPAN.  Why not write one for your favorite templating system?  It's
only a few lines of code:

   lang:Perl
   package MyProvider;
   use Moose;
   with 'App::TemplateServer::Provider::Filesystem';
   
   sub render_template { My::Engine->new->render($_[0], data => $_[1]->data) }
   1;

Enjoy.
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