In addition to integrating with Nancy, Veil can be used by itself in any project for advanced text templating.
To get started you simply need to install one of the Veil parsers for the syntax you prefer.
Install-Package Veil.SuperSimpleInstall-Package Veil.HandlebarsNancy is a great framework for building websites and it has been an important goal for Veil to integrate seamlessly in to your Nancy projects.
To get started you will first need to install Veil's view engine wrapper for Nancy.
Install-Package Nancy.ViewEngines.Veil
Recently I've been working away on a new project Veil.
Veil is my entry in to the .NET "view engine" / templates space.
There isn't exactly an urgent need for a new solution to this problem and most are perfectly happy with Razor. So why did I go ahead and spend my time writing one?
I was in the market for a CDN recently. Not one for my own content but one for pulling in libraries like jQuery, Moment and Marked.
In the interest of promoting a good service when I find one I thought I'd write a quick note about my chosen provider.
So you need a library for doing foo. No problem – you hop over to GitHub and you find FooX and FooY. FooX hasn't had a commit for over a year, it has no open pull requests and generally no activity to be seen. On the other hand FooY had a commit just last week, and there are a bunch of pending pull requests, open issues, and associated activity. Which library are you inclined to choose?
Since finishing up my day job last week, I have had some time to dedicate to a project idea I had a few months ago. It is now time to formally announce it.
Say hello to AppHarbify!
AppHarbify aims to make deploying common software to AppHarbor even easier. So easy that it can be done by non-technical people or from mobile devices.
Last week I contributed a tiny piece of code to the Code52 Metro.css project. My contribution was a node script that creates a boilerplate Node.js website for you using the Metro.css styles, Express and wires up the LESS compilation.
It’s about 8 months since my first contribution to an open source project. It was followed up minutes later by one to reverse all the accidental formatting changes I made. Damn you Visual Studio!