Instead of/in addition to using Shunter as a proxy you can also send JSON in the body of an HTTP POST request to the /template endpoint and get back a response containing the rendered HTML.
If our app had a template hello.dust containing:
<h1>{data.message}</h1>Then a POST request like this:
curl -H 'Content-type: application/json' -X POST -d '{"data": {"message": "Hello!"}}' http://your-shunter-server/template/hello
would return:
<h1>Hello!</h1>The template to render can also be specified as part of the JSON payload, so the following request would return the same result:
curl -H 'Content-type: application/json' -X POST -d '{"layout": {"template": "hello"}, "data": {"message": "Hello!"}}' http://your-shunter-server/template
The maximum size of the POST request can be controlled by setting the max-post-size option when starting your app.
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