Layouts and widgets documentation for Lua is missing

[bromagosa]

At http://leafo.net/lapis/reference/html_generation.html#layouts there's only the Moonscript part.

I don't understand how to build a widget in plain Lua, or where does content_for() look for content. I've tried adding .lua and .etlua files into the views directory with no success.

(Also, is there a mail list or some kind of place for Q/A? Using GitHub issues feels wrong, and I tried #moonscript at FreeNode, but there are not many users in there...)

[qaisjp]

content_for has the dual purpose of creating content and printing out content.

in your main layout you have something like

content_for "outer"

and in your sublayouts, you have something like (but in Lua, not in moon)

@content_for "outer", ->
    h1 "hello world"

No idea what to do with etlua, but I imagine you'd just put it in a <% %>. I don't use etlua.

Widgets are unrelated to content_for. In the content of html generation you can use:

follow_user = require "widgets.follow_user"
widget(follow_user)

to render the the follow_user widget.

Sorry if the examples weren't very helpful - I only use MoonScript with lapis.

(leafo has mentioned that for now #moonscript is the only place to get help. it is pretty quiet but you'll get an answer in ~12 hours. afaik, iirc, he has no plans for a forum style thing. indeed GitHub issues for support are counter-intuitive and break the system.)

[alexandrim0]

I just use return {render = true, layout = false} with etlua template like this:

<% render'views.header' %> --with HTML and HEAD tags

<% render'views.footer' %>

I`m not sure if using html builder with lua make sense.