metalsmith-engine-jstransformer

metalsmith-engine-jstransformer

A jstransformer engine for metalsmith-in-place and metalsmith-layouts

This engine allows you to render templates with jstransformer. Files will be transformed based on their extension, last extension first. Transformations are applied until there are no more applicable jstransformers left. Though its main purpose is rendering templates, any jstransformer compatible plugin can be used.

Example

For example, install jstransformer-handlebars to enable the handlebars transformation:

$ npm install jstransformer-handlebars

metalsmith-engine-jstransformer will detect which transformers you have installed and apply them. Use the following build configuration:

var metalsmith = require('metalsmith')
var inPlace = require('metalsmith-in-place')

metalsmith(__dirname)
  .use(inPlace())
  .build(function(err){
    if (err) throw err;
  });

Source file src/index.html.hbs:

---
title: The title
---
<p>{{title}}</p>

Results in build/index.html:

<p>The title</p>

This is a simple example, but of course you can expand on this and use any jstransformers that you want to use. See metalsmith-in-place for instructions on how to pass options to jstransformer and see here to see which extensions match to which jstransformers.

License

MIT