<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        {% block head %}
            <title>{{ page.title }}</title>
        {% endblock %}
    </head>
    <body>
        {% block content %}
            <ul id="navigation">
            {% for item in navigation %}
                <li><a href="{{ item.href }}">
                    {{- item.caption|escape -}}
                </a></li>
            {% endfor %}
            </ul>
    
            <h1>My Webpage</h1>
            {{ page.body }}
        {% endblock %}
    </body>
</html>

Installation

The recommended way to install Aspect is via LuaRocks:

luarocks install aspect

Or add src/?.lua to package.path:

package.path = '/path/to/aspect/src/?.lua;' .. package.path

Documentation links

Lua API
Template
- Syntax
- Tags
- Filters
- Functions
- Tests

Features

The key-features are…

Well known: The most popular syntax is used - Twig compatible, Jinja/Liquid like.
Fast: Aspect compiles templates down to plain optimized Lua code. Moreover, Lua code compiles into bytecode - the fastest representation of a template.
Secure: Aspect has a sandbox mode to evaluate all template code. This allows Aspect to be used as a template language for applications where users may modify the template design.
Flexible: Aspect is powered by a flexible lexer and parser. This allows the developer to define their own custom tags, filters, functions and operators, and to create their own DSL.
Supports lua 5.1/5.2/5.3 and luajit 2.0/2.1 (with OpenResty)
Has console renderer.
No dependencies. Pure Lua.
List of all features

Aspect also has a console tool for rendering data

$ aspect /path/to/data.json /path/to/template.tpl

Synopsis

Installation

Documentation links

Features