What is Spark

Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly.

For example,

<ul>
  <li each='var p in ViewData.Model.Products'>
    ${p.Name} !{Html.ActionLink[[ProductController]](c=>c.Edit(p.Id), "Edit")}
  </li>  
</ul>

The full csharp language is available in a way that doesn't interfere with the harmony and balance of the markup. The view template files produced compiled classes.

Needs documentation

• Web-Application relative ~/ urls
• Support for <def> and <var>
• Capture content directly to variables
• Inner text on partial views
• monorail view components
• clientside rendering
• javascript clientside views
• Use of ${expr} and !{expr} and automaticEncoding
• late bound ${#prop} and ${Eval("prop")}
• view areas