Leslie is a Lua implementation of Django template language.

External dependencies

• lua 5.1
• lpeg library

Supported tags

• block (>= 0.2)
• comment
• empty
• extends (>= 0.2)
• filter (>= 0.3a-pre)
• for
• firstof
• if (partly)
• ifequal
• ifnotequal
• include (>= 0.2)
• now (>= 0.3a-pre)
• ssi (>= 0.2)
• templatetag (>= 0.2)
• with

Other features

• template inheritance (>= 0.2)
• template including (>= 0.2)
• custom tags (>= 0.2)
• loading templates from different location (>= 0.3a-pre)
• custom filters (>= 0.3a-pre)

Filters are currently not supported, but you can try prerelease which supports filters.

For more information about using Django template language see Django template reference.

Release planning

version 0.3

• filter support
• custom filters
• useful wrapper functions

version 0.4

• complete if tag support (logical operators)
• complete filter support

version 0.5

• complete tag support

version 0.6

• contribute tags and filters
• lua installer
• .deb packages / lua rocks

version 0.7 -> 1.0

• other features?
• optimizations? (cache, improved identifier resolution, class implementation)
• lexer (lpeg implementaton)
• handling parse errors (invalid syntax, unclosed tags, invalid argument passing...)