restdb.io lets you create HTML Pages from scratch and include them as an integral part of your database and application.
Pages are useful for:
- creating custom reports
- develop dynamic content used by other web applications
- complete dynamic web sites
You create Pages with html code and connect to your database through server side script templates (Handlebars) or with JavaScript
client code. Pages can also act as components in other Pages by including one in another.Create a Page
Select developer mode and create a new page from the dashboard.
In this example we'll create a simple report page.
A new Page is created and we can click on the link to start creating its content.
Pages are made of html. We can write the code directly into restdb.io with a built in code editor:
Close up of our html code and Handlebars tags:
Save the page with (cmd-s or ctrl-s) and click on the Preview tab to see the result:
This is fine, but lets add a more precise query to list only some products and even show some product photos, lets change the code to something more advanced instead:
Our report will now look like this instead:
Each Page has a unique URL and can be viewed separately as a stand alone page.
Server templates
Templates are written directly in your html. The output from a template is injected in the html on the server before its is sent to a browser. Pages rendered with server templates are fast and require very little from your web browser.
GET
Content from the database are retrieved with the GET tag.
In our example we retrieve data from the products Collection, and we limit data with a query and finally sort the data by the name Field. In the body of the GET tag we can iterate through the data set.
{{#GET "product" query='{"name": {"$regex": "Adaptive.*"}}' hints='{"$orderby": {"name": 1}}'}}
{{#each items}}
...
{{/each}}
{{/GET}}
Include
To include one Page in another we just use the include tag with the name of the Page we wish to include.
{{#include "page-name"}}{{/include}}