Super simple templating tool

Question

I've often wanted a simple tool that could take text templates, then output a user friendly page/view that asks the user for each unique variable. The important bit is that creating the templates are non-programmer friendly, and that the interactive template filler is cross-platform friendly. It is for generating text configurations for embedded equipment.

Templates would look like

Hello $firstname
Your favorite color is $favoritecolor
I have now been introduced to $firstname who likes $favoritecolor

I know in my bones that this must exist, but I just can't seem to craft the right keywords for a search engine to avail me.

Answer 1

There is TemplateFx (https://templatefx.org), which as the title asks for, is a simple Templating tool which we use at work for various tasks. It is mostly used to generate router configs based on our standard site templates. However, as the Op also mentions a library it might not be what they are after.

2021 UPDATE If you want an open source and non proprietary solution which uses Jinja2 templating which is commonly used with Ansible and other tools then I also wrote JinjaFx which is written in Python and has a web frontend at https://jinjafx.io