Simple Template Engine

The Simple Template Engine is a short and simple template engine I built in JS that targets a page that's already running jQuery. My inspiration came from a blog post by Stephen Walther titled "An Introduction to jQuery Templates". I enjoyed the simple syntax he outlined and I had an idea as to how I could make a considerably powerful templatting engine in a small amount of code. That code can be found on my github page found here or you can view the source for this page and grab the template.js file.

Here's the code that makes up the template engine:

var Template = function(templateString, obj) {
    var match = false;
    $.each(obj, function(k, v) {
        var keyStr = "${" + k + "}";
        if(templateString.indexOf(keyStr) !== -1) {
            match = true;
            if(typeof v === "function"){
                v = v(obj);
            }
            templateString = templateString.split(keyStr).join(v);
        }
    });
    if(match) {
        return Template(templateString, obj);  
    } else {
        return templateString;
    }
};