Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

Using the basic functions of the Leaf templating engine

After registering and configuring for the Leaf templating engine, you're about to explore some basic functions offered by Leaf.

Follow these steps to render the main page using Leaf:

1. First, you need to import the Leaf module into your file. Add this line to routes.swift:

import Leaf

2. The following shows you the basic syntax of rendering a Leaf template from a route:

router.get { req -> Future<View> in // [1]    let leaf = try req.make(LeafRenderer.self) // [2]    let context = [String: String]() // [3]    return leaf.render("main", context) // [4]}

There are four steps involved in rendering a page:

1. 1. Return a future view object in a route's closure
   2. Get a handler to the Leaf templating engine ...