I like Jbuilder. It’s been part of every Rails project every time I run rails
new and the first thing I reach for when I want to create JSON responses. It’s
as synonymous with JSON as ERB is with HTML.
But I wanted a version of Jbuilder that had layouts, didn’t merge hashes, had faster caches, directly used OJ’s StringWriter instead of building a hash, and allowed me to dig into a structure using a key path. Sometimes it makes sense to contribute to an open source project and submit pull requests for the features you want; sometimes we diverge so much that it makes sense to start anew.
Introducing props_template. A JSON builder with a Jbuilder-like DSL that has support for all of the previously mentioned and more!
It’s fast.
And doesn’t compromise on the DSL by staying as close as possible to Jbuilder.
# index.json.props
json.menu do
json.current_user do
json.email current_user.email
json.avatar current_user.avatar
json.inbox current_user.messages.count
end
end
json.posts do
json.array! paged_posts do |post|
json.id post.id
json.description post.description
json.comments_count post.comments.count
json.edit_path edit_post_path(post)
end
end
json.footer partial: 'shared/footer' do
end
props_template was built to generate JSON for superglue, a framework that makes React and Redux as productive as Hotwire, Turbo and Stimulus. Give that a try too!
