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appendit
Appendit allows you easily to add text at a specific line. It will works with any plain text format like ```.txt``` ```.md``` ```.js``` ...
#Appendit 
Appendit allows you easily to add text at a specific line. It will works with any plain text format like .txt .md .js ...
Installation
npm install --save appendit
Example
Below a quick example how to use appendit:
The index.html looks like that:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<!-- anchor -->
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Call the appendit function with the following parameters:
var fs = require('fs');
var appendit = require('appendit');
var content = appendit({
source: fs.readFileSync('index.html', 'utf8'),
anchor: '<!-- anchor -->',
content: [
'<script src="main.js"></script>'
]
});
fs.writeFileSync('index.html', content);
Output:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script src="main.js"></script>
<!-- anchor -->
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
###One more
Let's add a headline to the body:
appendit({
source: fs.readFileSync('index.html', 'utf8'),
anchor: '</body>',
content: [
'<h1>Hello Node!</h1>'
]
})
Output:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script src="main.js"></script>
<!-- anchor -->
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello Node!</h1>
</body>
</html>
Testing
Running npm testwill run the unit tests with mocha
FAQs
Appendit allows you easily to add text at a specific line. It will works with any plain text format like ```.txt``` ```.md``` ```.js``` ...
The npm package appendit receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, appendit popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that appendit demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 25 Feb 2014
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