Handy dust.js template references

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Very helpful post
We've used many features including inheritance and substitution

Dynamic partials, very helpful to include partials based on values (avoids conditionals)
  e.g. {>"partname-{aValue}"/}

This is use of if dust helper
{@if cond="'{choiceShown}' <= 0"}
<p class="choicesmessage" class="myStyle">Some text</p>
{/if}

One of reasons I like dust is that if avoids js code "logic-less" in the template. So it feels "wrong" to create an @if with its funky syntax as well as other kinds of helpers.
Need to be really careful with these. I'm very much with the "logic-less" school with regards to templates.

dust has a really useful lookup mechanism when looking for properties, see the 2nd link section "Traversing JSON using dust". We needed to show properties which were nested in a differrent block to the one being processed. That is possible using dust because when resolving blocks dust does "Dust does bottom up traversing from a section, not top down traversing"
This is very powerful because the dust data does not have to match exactly the view layout order.