load-templates

load-templates

Load templates from file paths, globs or objects, and cache them as normalized objects.

This is a template loader, pure and simple, no rendering or caching.

Currently any of the following input configurations will return a normalized template object with the same root properties:

loader.load(['abc/*.hbs']);
loader.load('abc/*.md');
loader.load({'abc/def.md': {content: 'ghi.', lmn: 'xyz'});
loader.load({'abc/def.md': {content: 'ghi.'}}, {lmn: 'xyz'});
loader.load({path: 'abc/def.md', content: 'ghi.'}, {lmn: 'xyz'});
loader.load({path: 'abc/def.md', content: 'ghi.', lmn: 'xyz'});
loader.load('abc.md', 'def <%= name %>.');
loader.load('abc.md', 'def <%= name %>.', {name: 'Jon Schlinkert'});

Root properties

• path: file path or key to use for the template.
• data: data from the parsed template, e.g. front-matter.
• locals: locals pass on one of the loader methods. (keeping locals and data seperate allows you to merge however you need to.)
• content: the parsed content of the template
• orig: the original content of the template, if parsed

Properties that are not on this list will be moved/copied to the data object and retained on orig.

Install

Install with npm:

npm i load-templates --save-dev

Run tests

npm test

API

loader

• options {Object}: Options to initialize loader with

var loader = require('load-templates');

.load

Expand glob patterns, load, read, parse and normalize files from file paths, strings, objects, or arrays of these types.

• key {String|Object|Array}: Array, object, string or file paths.
• value {String|Object}: String of content, file object with content property, or locals if the first arg is a file path.
• options {Object}: Options or locals.
• returns {Object}: Normalized file object.

Examples:

Filepaths or arrays of glob patterns.

var temlates = loader.load(['pages/*.hbs']);
var posts = loader.load('posts/*.md');

As strings or objects:

// loader.load(key, value, locals);
var docs = loader.load({'foo/bar.md': {content: 'this is content.'}}, {foo: 'bar'});

// loader.load(key, value, locals);
var post = loader.load('abc.md', 'My name is <%= name %>.', {name: 'Jon Schlinkert'});

.string

• key {String}: Glob patterns or file paths.
• value {String|Object}: String of content, file object with content property, or locals if the first arg is a file path.
• options {Object}: Options or locals.
• returns {Object}: Normalized file object.

Expand glob patterns, load, read, parse and normalize files from file paths or strings.

.array

• patterns {Object}: Glob patterns or array of filepaths.
• options {Object}: Options or locals
• returns {Array}: Array of normalized file objects.

Normalize an array of patterns.

.object

• file {Object}: The object to normalize.
• options {Object}: Options or locals

Normalize a template object.

._cwd

• filepath {String}

The current working directory to use. Default is process.cwd().

.rename

• filepath {String}

Rename the key of each template loaded using whatever rename function is defined on the options. path.basename is the default.

.parse

• filepath {String}: The path of the file to read/parse.
• Options {Object}: Options or locals.

Parse the content of each template loaded using whatever parsing function is defined on the options. fs.readFileSync is used by default.

.normalize

• file {Object}: The template object to normalize.
• Options {Object}: Options or locals.

Normalize a template using whatever normalize function is defined on the options.

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Jon Schlinkert, contributors.
Released under the MIT license

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