Does Toffee support inheritance?

[leeola]

I'm looking for a way to wrap another template around the current template, something like inheritance. Is there any way to do this in Toffee?

[malgorithms]

Not really the way you'd like. There are a few ways to wrap one template around another, but none of them are done by declaring at the top of one template to include itself in another.

Solution 1: some file which coordinates this

partial is just a function which returns a string, which normally you print. But you could assign its output to a var and pass it to another file.

So for example, to make child.toffee go inside parent.toffee as a var, you could do something like this (outside of both of those files):

<h1>This is interesting</h1>
#{partial 'parent.toffee', {content: partial 'child.toffee'}}

Inside parent.toffee you'd print it like so:

<!-- raw because you don't want to escape the HTML you pubbed -->
#{raw content} 

Solution 2: a top-down approach.

Rather than starting with the child and declaring a parent, you can always tell the parent which child to use. Sort of reverse inheritance. This is typically how I would do it, although it requires the parent is aware of the children:

<!-- assuming you've passed a 'language' var -->
<h1>I am the parent doc</h1>
#{partial "./children/#{language}.toffee}

So you can always just publish a parent file and tell which inheritance you want from it.

I typically would do something like solution 2, personally. Imagine I had a general type of template called 'user-list' but specifically I wanted to show a list of people who were admins, so there was more info, I would just publish user-list.toffee but pass a var saying that it was an admin list, and it could include different sub files.

Again, neither of these solutions is probably what you're looking for, exactly.