Blazejs.org Website Review

Blaze is a powerful library for creating user interfaces by writing reactive HTML templates. Compared to using a combination of traditional templates and jQuery, Blaze eliminates the need for all the “update logic” in your app that listens for data changes and manipulates the DOM. Instead, familiar template directives like {{#if}} and {{#each}} integrates with Tracker’s Blaze is a Meteor-only package for now. Soon we will have Blaze on npm so you can use it in your stack. Each new Meteor project you create has Blaze included (the blaze-html-templates package). A template compiler that compiles template files into Ja*aScript code that runs against the Blaze runtime library. Moreover, Blaze provides a compiler toolchain (think LLVM) that can be used to support arbitrary template syntaxes. The flagship template syntax is Spacebars, a variant of Handlebars, but a community alternative based on Jade is already in use by many apps. A reactive DOM engine that builds and manages the DOM at runtime, invoked via templates or directly from the app, which features reactively updating regions, lists, and attributes; event delegation; and many callbacks and hooks to aid the app developer. Blaze is sometimes compared to frameworks like React, Angular, Ember, Polymer, Knockout, and others by virtue of its advanced templating system. What sets Blaze apart is a relentless focus on the developer experience, using templating, transparent reactivity, and interoperability with existing libraries to create a gentle learning curve while enabling you to build world-clas* apps. Here are two Spacebars templates from an example app called “Leaderboard” which displays a sorted list of top players and       The template tags and refer to properties of the data context (the current player), while players and selected refer to helper functions. Helper functions and event handlers are defined in Ja*aScript: