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Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Sep 09, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:46:25 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

It's time for another minor release bump in Spark as we begin to support a different kind of syntax called Jade. You can read up more about Jade at http://jade-lang.com/

To start using it, simply add a reference to Spark and start adding *.shade files to your project and as long as Spark is registered as a view engine, then it should automatically attempt Jade parsing to HTML. That of course, means that you can mix and match .spark and .shade files and the parser will work just fine with both of them. You can even create .shade partials that can be consumed by .spark views.

It should be noted that this is only the provisional support and point releases will be made as an when bugs are discovered to work out the kinks. If you find any issues, please don't hesitate to raise them on github preferably

This feature is very new, but for now you can see an example of Jade syntax usage in these places:

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Fixes included in v1.7.3 release:

Add IsOdd and IsEven to loop auto variables
Fix missing whitespace when using bindings
Implement optional attributes in bindings

Fixes included in v1.7.2 release:

Added support for the new "unless" conditional. If you're used to Ruby then you'll know about it, but if not, then simply consider it like an equivalent of "if not". This can be used as both an attribute on any node or as the node itself with a condition="foo" attribute to wrap any other nodes
Added support for .shade file location in MS MVC projects using default conventions.

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Released: Spark v1.7 (Sep 09, 2012)

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:46:25 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Fixes included in v1.7.3 release:

Add IsOdd and IsEven to loop auto variables
Fix missing whitespace when using bindings
Implement optional attributes in bindings

Fixes included in v1.7.2 release:

Added support for the new "unless" conditional. If you're used to Ruby then you'll know about it, but if not, then simply consider it like an equivalent of "if not". This can be used as both an attribute on any node or as the node itself with a condition="foo" attribute to wrap any other nodes
Added support for .shade file location in MS MVC projects using default conventions.

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Sep 09, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:44:13 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Fixes included in v1.7.3 release:

Add IsOdd and IsEven to loop auto variables
Fix missing whitespace when using bindings
Implement optional attributes in bindings

Fixes included in v1.7.2 release:

Added support for the new "unless" conditional. If you're used to Ruby then you'll know about it, but if not, then simply consider it like an equivalent of "if not". This can be used as both an attribute on any node or as the node itself with a condition="foo" attribute to wrap any other nodes
Added support for .shade file location in MS MVC projects using default conventions.

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Sep 09, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:40:57 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Fixes included in v1.7.2 release:

Added support for the new "unless" conditional. If you're used to Ruby then you'll know about it, but if not, then simply consider it like an equivalent of "if not". This can be used as both an attribute on any node or as the node itself with a condition="foo" attribute to wrap any other nodes
Added support for .shade file location in MS MVC projects using default conventions.

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Jun 01, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:51:30 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Fixes included in v1.7.2 release:

Added support for the new "unless" conditional. If you're used to Ruby then you'll know about it, but if not, then simply consider it like an equivalent of "if not". This can be used as both an attribute on any node or as the node itself with a condition="foo" attribute to wrap any other nodes
Added support for .shade file location in MS MVC projects using default conventions.

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Released: Spark v1.7 (Jun 01, 2012)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:51:30 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Fixes included in v1.7.2 release:

Added support for the new "unless" conditional. If you're used to Ruby then you'll know about it, but if not, then simply consider it like an equivalent of "if not". This can be used as both an attribute on any node or as the node itself with a condition="foo" attribute to wrap any other nodes
Added support for .shade file location in MS MVC projects using default conventions.

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Jun 01, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:44:57 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Jun 01, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:29:31 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Released: Spark v1.7 (Jun 01, 2012)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:29:31 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Jun 01, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:27:45 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (May 30, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:45:44 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Released: Spark v1.7 (May 30, 2012)

Wed, 30 May 2012 16:45:44 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (May 30, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:42:16 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (May 30, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:40:18 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (May 30, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:37:52 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Apr 29, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:34:17 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Released: Spark v1.7 (Apr 29, 2012)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:34:17 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.7 (Apr 29, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:25:40 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Created Release: Spark v1.7 (Apr 29, 2012)

RobertGreyling — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:19:42 GMT

Release Notes v1.7

Some Razor views compared with Jade views: https://gist.github.com/2371061
Used on the OWIN/Gate project with Sake for builds: https://github.com/loudej/gate/tree/makefiles/src/build
The new Sake library (think make for C#) itself based upon the Spark View Engine: https://github.com/loudej/sake/tree/master/src/Sake.Library/Shared
The make file on the OWIN/gate project: https://github.com/loudej/gate/blob/makefiles/makefile.shade

Other fixes since the v1.6 release include:

JS compiler bug for toString() occasionally invoked on null and adding ~ to JS view paths
Bug fix for Area support in finding layouts

Updated Release: Spark v1.6 (Jul 02, 2011)

RobertGreyling — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:10:02 GMT

Release Notes 1.6

There are two fixes that I've introduced into Spark v1.6 which address the following sticking points:

Attributes surrounded with single quotes with double quotes inside will now be preserved as per your input.

For example:

 <tag attr='something; other="value1, value2"' />

results in exactly the same output HTML when it used to substitute single quote on the outside with double quotes incorrectly. This never used to be an issue a few years ago, but with new libraries taking advantage of HTML5 syntax, attributes like the one above are becoming very common and Spark just got in the way. Anyway, this is fixed now, but if any of your previous views were "relying" on Spark swapping those to double quotes for you (though I can't imagine why), then you may want to retest those views.

The second thing that is happening is a number of JavaScript frameworks jumping on the whole ${ } syntax bandwagon like jQuery Templates for example. So naturally will try and parse these and expand the variables in to the rendered output and folks have been asking for a way to escape these so that they are not parsed, and left alone for the JS library to consume.

So there are now two ways you can escape the Spark code expressions:

Single item escaping (github commit)
Entire block escaping (github commit)

Single Item escaping

This can be done by using one of three escape chars for each expression type. Rather than explain, the following is an example of how you would do this in your spark view:

    <div>
        $${Encoded.Escaped.with.a.dollar < 0}
        \${Encoded.Escaped.with.a.backslash < 0}
        `${Encoded.Escaped.with.a.backtick < 0}
    </div>
    <div>
        !!{Unencoded.Escaped.with.a.dollar < 0}
        \!{Unencoded.Escaped.with.a.backslash < 0}
        `!{Unencoded.Escaped.with.a.backtick < 0}
    </div>
    <div>
        $$!{Encoded.Silent.Nulls.Escaped.with.a.dollar < 0}
        \$!{Encoded.Silent.Nulls.Escaped.with.a.backslash < 0}
        `$!{Encoded.Silent.Nulls.Escaped.with.a.backtick < 0}
    </div>

results in the following verbatim output:

    <div>
        ${Encoded.Escaped.with.a.dollar < 0}
        ${Encoded.Escaped.with.a.backslash < 0}
        ${Encoded.Escaped.with.a.backtick < 0}
    </div>
    <div>
        !{Unencoded.Escaped.with.a.dollar < 0}
        !{Unencoded.Escaped.with.a.backslash < 0}
        !{Unencoded.Escaped.with.a.backtick < 0}
    </div>
    <div>
        $!{Encoded.Silent.Nulls.Escaped.with.a.dollar < 0}
        $!{Encoded.Silent.Nulls.Escaped.with.a.backslash < 0}
        $!{Encoded.Silent.Nulls.Escaped.with.a.backtick < 0}
    </div>

Now I know that currently the $ is the popular delimiter, but all we need is for one, er...visionary, to decide to use the exclamation point (probably already have) and we'd be in the same boat, so this code change takes that into account as well.

Entire block escaping

This is already in the current version, but worth mentioning again. The second way you can do this is thanks to Mike Murray who introduced the new <ignore> special tag for Spark and you use to output verbatim anything that is inside like so:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>ignore test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>ignore test</h1>
    <p>${System.DateTime.Now}</p>
    <ignore>
        <div>
            Regular text ${This.isnt.code < 0}
            <var dummy="This isn't a variable" />
        </div>
    </ignore>
  </body>
</html>

Lastly, as of Spark v1.6, it is now fully Mono compliant - well, there's the VB bits, but I'm not counting those :) - thanks to some awesome community efforts by Alex and Jaime! And thanks to them and Josh, we also have a first class shining implementation of Spark now in the FubuMVC framework that really is better than I ever could have hoped for.

Please reach out and thank these guys, they've done some spectacular work here in their own spare time and it's hugely appreciated.