jaihind213/dropwizard-mustache

sample dropwizard application using mustache for html templating

Dropwizard Mustache

Sample application showing how to build a dropwizard service returning html views using the mustache templating engine.

This is a simple dropwizard implementation for returning HTML, using Mustache as the templating engine. It's based on the Dropwizard example here. Used mustache over FreeMarker basically because I'd heard more about Mustache and it seemed more active. Using SBT instead of Maven as I keep hearing bad things about using Maven for complex builds and want to build up my SBT knowledge.

A couple of points noted during development:

• To use views you need to add a dependency to "dropwizard-views" in addition to "dropwizard-core"
• Mustache.java does not support inheritance, but does do partials, which makes it a little clumsy for HTML templating
• Testing of views looks easy, as does testing resources constructing them

Setup

To compile:

./sbt assembly

To run:

java -jar target/scala-2.10/dropwizard-mustache-assembly-0.1.jar server config.yml