Lightweight Django template loader for the Mustache templating language, using pystache.
This only handles the server side rendering, but the main goal is obviously to remain dry by avoiding duplicating templates when rendering something client side.

Install

pip install git+https://github.com/liberation/django_mustache.git

Note: no pypy package yet

Replace django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader with django_mustache.loader.MustacheLoader in settings.TEMPLATE_LOADERS.

Because we are expecting the templates to be served through the 'static' channel, there is a different setting for MUSTACHE_TEMPLATE_DIRS, it avoids the cluttering of TEMPLATE_DIRS and is a bit more efficient. If you don't need this, you can simply do : MUSTACHE_TEMPLATE_DIRS = TEMPLATE_DIRS.

Note: NO NEED to add django_mustache to settings.INSTALLED_APPS, unless you want to run the tests.

Settings

• MUSTACHE_TEMPLATE_DIRS:
  Defaults to [os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, 'js', 'templates')]

• MUSTACHE_FILE_EXTENSION:
  Defaults to '.mustache'
  Will only use Mustache for templates files with one this extension, fallback on regular django templating language.

Tests

Add django_mustache to settings.INSTALLED_APPS.

$ cd test_project
$ virtualenv env1.7
$ . env1.7/bin/activate
$ pip install "django>=1.7, <1.8"  # install the highest 1.7 version
$ python manage.py test django_mustache

compatibility: Django 1.4 to 1.7