assemble-core
The core assemble application with no presets or defaults. All configuration is left to the implementor.
assemble-core was designed to give implementors and hackers the baseline features and API for creating rich and powerful node.js applications. You can create web applications, project generators, or even your own static site generator using assemble-core. Learn more about what you can do with assemble-core.
Install
Install with npm:
$ npm install assemble-core --save
Usage
var assemble = require('assemble-core');
var app = assemble();
Examples
view collections
Create a custom view collection:
var app = assemble();
app.create('pages');
Now you can add pages with app.page()
or app.pages()
:
app.page('home.hbs', {content: 'this is the home page!'});
render
Render a view:
var app = assemble();
var view = app.view('foo', {content: 'Hi, my name is <%= name %>'});
app.render(view, { name: 'Brian' }, function(err, res) {
console.log(res.content);
});
Render a view from a collection:
var app = assemble();
app.create('pages');
app.page('foo', {content: 'Hi, my name is <%= name %>'})
.set('data.name', 'Brian')
.render(function (err, res) {
console.log(res.content);
});
API
Create an assemble
application. This is the main function exported by the assemble module.
Params
options
{Object}: Optionally pass default options to use.
Example
var assemble = require('assemble');
var app = assemble();
Templates API
Assemble has an extensive API for working with templates and template collections. In fact, the entire API from the templates library is available on Assemble.
While we work on getting the assemble docs updated with these methods you can visit the templates library to learn more about the full range of features and options.
File System API
Assemble has the following methods for working with the file system:
Assemble v0.6.0 has full vinyl-fs support, so any gulp plugin should work with assemble.
.src
Use one or more glob patterns or filepaths to specify source files.
Params
glob
{String|Array}: Glob patterns or file paths to source files.options
{Object}: Options or locals to merge into the context and/or pass to src
plugins
Example
app.src('src/*.hbs', {layout: 'default'});
.dest
Specify the destination to use for processed files.
Params
dest
{String|Function}: File path or custom renaming function.options
{Object}: Options and locals to pass to dest
plugins
Example
app.dest('dist/');
.copy
Copy files from A to B, where A
is any pattern that would be valid in app.src and B
is the destination directory.
Params
patterns
{String|Array}: One or more file paths or glob patterns for the source files to copy.dest
{String|Function}: Desination directory.returns
{Stream}: The stream is returned, so you can continue processing files if necessary.
Example
app.copy('assets/**', 'dist/');
.symlink
Glob patterns or paths for symlinks.
Params
Example
app.symlink('src/**');
Task API
Assemble has the following methods for running tasks and controlling workflows:
.task
Define a task. Tasks are functions that are stored on a tasks
object, allowing them to be called later by the build method. (the CLI calls build to run tasks)
Params
name
{String}: Task namefn
{Function}: function that is called when the task is run.
Example
app.task('default', function() {
return app.src('templates/*.hbs')
.pipe(app.dest('dist/'));
});
.build
Run one or more tasks.
Params
tasks
{Array|String}: Task name or array of task names.cb
{Function}: callback function that exposes err
Example
app.build(['foo', 'bar'], function(err) {
if (err) console.error('ERROR:', err);
});
.watch
Watch files, run one or more tasks when a watched file changes.
Params
glob
{String|Array}: Filepaths or glob patterns.tasks
{Array}: Task(s) to watch.
Example
app.task('watch', function() {
app.watch('docs/*.md', ['docs']);
});
FAQ
What can I do with assemble-core?
You can use assemble-core to create your own custom:
- blog engine
- project generator / scaffolder
- e-book development framework
- build system
- landing page generator
- documentation generator
- front-end UI framework
- rapid prototyping application
- static site generator
- web application
How does assemble-core differ from assemble?
feature | assemble-core | assemble | notes |
---|
front-matter parsing | No | Yes | use assemble or use parser-front-matter as an .onLoad middleware. |
CLI | No | Yes | Create your own CLI experience, or use assemble |
Built-in template collections | No | Yes | Use .create() to add collections |
Built-in template engine | No | Yes | assemble ships with engine-handlebars. Use .engine() to register any consolidate-compatible template engine. |
Related projects
Assemble is built on top of these great projects:
- assemble: Assemble is a powerful, extendable and easy to use static site generator for node.js. Used… more | homepage
- boilerplate: Tools and conventions for authoring and publishing boilerplates that can be generated by any build… more | homepage
- composer: API-first task runner with three methods: task, run and watch. | homepage
- generate: Fast, composable, highly extendable project generator with a user-friendly and expressive API. | homepage
- scaffold: Conventions and API for creating declarative configuration objects for project scaffolds - similar in format… more | homepage
- templates: System for creating and managing template collections, and rendering templates with any node.js template engine.… more | homepage
- verb: Documentation generator for GitHub projects. Verb is extremely powerful, easy to use, and is used… more | homepage
Tests
Running tests
Install dev dependencies:
$ npm install -d && npm test
Contributing
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
If Assemble doesn't do what you need, [please let us know][issue].
History
v0.14.0
- bumps templates to v0.15.1
- adds logging methods from base-logger (
.log
, .verbose
, etc) .handleView
method is now deprecated, use .handleOnce
instead- Private method
.mergePartialsSync
rename was reverted to .mergePartials
to be consistent with other updates in .render
and .compile
. No other breaking changes, but some new features were added to templates for handling context in views and helpers.
v0.13.0
- Breaking change: bumps templates to v0.13.0 to fix obscure rendering bug when multiple duplicate partials were rendered in the same view. But the fix required changing the
.mergePartials
method to be async. If you're currently using .mergePartials
, you can continue to do so synchronously using the .mergePartialsSync
method.
v0.9.0
- Updates composer to v0.11.0, which removes the
.watch
method in favor of using the base-watch plugin.
v0.8.0
- Bumps several deps. templates was bumped to 0.9.0 to take advantage of event handling improvements.
v0.7.0
- Bumps templates to 0.8.0 to take advantage of
isType
method for checking a collection type, and a number of improvements to how collections and views are instantiated and named.
v0.6.0
- Bumps assemble-fs plugin to 0.5.0, which introduces
onStream
and preWrite
middleware handlers. - Bumps templates to 0.7.0, which fixes how non-cached collections are initialized. This was done as a minor instead of a patch since - although it's a fix - it could theoretically break someone's setup.
v0.5.0
- Bumps templates to latest, 0.6.0, since it uses the latest base-methods, which introduces prototype mixins. No API changes.
v0.4.0
- Removed emitter-only since it was only includes to be used in the default listeners that were removed in an earlier release. In rare cases this might be a breaking change, but not likely.
- Adds lazy-cache
- Updates assemble-streams plugin to latest
Authors
Jon Schlinkert
Brian Woodward
License
Copyright © 2016, Jon Schlinkert.
Released under the MIT license.
This file was generated by verb, v0.9.0, on May 21, 2016.