grunt-codekit
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Grunt plugin for compiling Kit files Can be used to embed files or concatenate files
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npm install grunt-codekit --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-codekit');
The plugin supports compiling templates written using the Kit language of CodeKit™. You can use both short form and long form when specifying input and output destination.
Using short form (see below), the output files will be placed in the dest directory
and have the same names as the input files, only using a .html extension. When using
the long form you can explicitly specify the full name and path of each output file.
There is nothing in the way of mixing and matching the two styles.
As with all Grunt plugins, you can specify an options object, either for all tasks
or for each task. There is currently just one option:
compilePrefixed - Files starting with an underscore (such as _header.kit),
so called partials, are normally not considered for compilation. By setting this option
to true you can override this setting and still compile these files (default false).Do remember that Grunt has a [lot of fancy ways of doing file system manipulation] (http://gruntjs.com/configuring-tasks#building-the-files-object-dynamically) for you
grunt.initConfig({
codekit: {
globbed_example_config : {
src : 'templates/**/*.kit',
dest : 'build/html/'
},
explicit_output_names: {
files : {
'build/index.html' : '/templates/my_special_index.kit'
}
},
build_with_underscored_files : {
options : { compilePrefixed : true },
files : {
'build/about.html' : '_about.kit',
'build/index.html' : '_index.kit'
}
},
// see http://gruntjs.com/configuring-tasks#building-the-files-object-dynamically
dynamic_file_object: {
files: [{
expand: true,
cwd: 'sources',
src: ['**/*.kit'],
dest: 'build',
ext: '.html'
}
});
Using Penthouse one can generate a file containing the critical path css, which can dramatically impact your site's perceived speed and your page ranking in Google.
You still need a way of embedding that CSS, though, and one way of doing that is using the Kit language. An example on how this kit file might look is as follows
<html>
<head>
<title><!-- @title --></title>
<!-- embed critical path css generated by penthouse -->
<style>
<!--@include critical.css -->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- @include _header.kit -->
<!-- @include _navbar.kit -->
The main text of the page
<!-- @include _footer.kit -->
</body>
</html>
The Kit language is a simple html templating language used in the commercial program CodeKit. It imports files into other html files and does simple variable substitution. Since Bryan Jones made it open source it has seen support from several other programs, among those PrePros and implementations in Python and Javascript. This plugin makes it possible to compile these files using Grunt.
FAQs
Grunt plugin that compiles Kit files
The npm package grunt-codekit receives a total of 20 weekly downloads. As such, grunt-codekit popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that grunt-codekit 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.
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