In Mustache templating is there an elegant way of expressing a comma separated list without the trailing comma?

Question

I am using the Mustache templating library and trying to generate a comma separated list without a trailing comma, e.g.

red, green, blue

Answer 1

I tend to think this is a task well suited to CSS (as answered by others). However, assuming you are attempting to do something like produce a CSV file, you would not have HTML and CSS available to you. Also, if you are considering modifying data to do this anyway, this may be a tidier way to do it:

var data = {
  "items": [
    {"name": "red"},
    {"name": "green"},
    {"name": "blue"}
  ]
};

// clone the original data. 
// Not strictly necessary, but sometimes its
// useful to preserve the original object
var model = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data));

// extract the values into an array and join 
// the array with commas as the delimiter
model.items = Object.values(model.items).join(',');

var html = Mustache.render("{{items}}", model);