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 Query Languages category of a tech stack.
Who uses DTL?
Developers
DTL Integrations
JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, JSON, and YAML are some of the popular tools that integrate with DTL. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with DTL.
DTL's Features
- Remap data from one format to another
- Easily define translations between API data formats and your database formats
- Do complex calculations producing new data from input data
- Separate your data processing rules from your application code
- Create data validation rules that work both in browser and on server
- Easily extract specific information from deeply nested data structures
- Create new data from input data, including the ability to combine fields and calculate new data items
- Easily validate input data for APIs and form processing
- Easily verify any type of data
- Reduce code changes needed to cope with data structure changes
- Define validation rules in one place, and dynamically transfer / include them into your frontend code, simplifying frontend validation code
DTL Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DTL?
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.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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