What is DTL?
It is a language for extracting, manipulating, and transforming data. It works anywhere you can use Javascript, on the server, in your node.js code, or even in the browser. It also includes CLI tools for transforming data in bulk and for exploring the syntax.
DTL is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Remap data from one format to anotherEasily define translations between API data formats and your database formatsDo complex calculations producing new data from input dataSeparate your data processing rules from your application codeCreate data validation rules that work both in browser and on serverEasily extract specific information from deeply nested data structuresCreate new data from input data, including the ability to combine fields and calculate new data itemsEasily validate input data for APIs and form processingEasily verify any type of dataReduce code changes needed to cope with data structure changesDefine validation rules in one place, and dynamically transfer / include them into your frontend code, simplifying frontend validation code
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JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
