metalsmith-react-templates

metalsmith-react-templates

A templating plugin using React.js templates

About

metalsmith-react-templates is a metalsmith plugin to render files using React.js based templates.

Change Notice

As of v3.0.0, this plugin will only use babel as it's transpiler as react-tools will be deprecated from 0.14 onwards. Read more about this at React's blog: Deprecating JSTransform and react-tools

Installation

npm install metalsmith-react-templates

CLI Usage

Install the node modules and then add the metalsmith-react-templates key to your metalsmith.json plugins. The simplest use case just requires the template engine you want to use:

{
  "plugins": {
    "metalsmith-react-templates": true
  }
}

If you want to specify additional options, pass an object:

{
  "plugins": {
    "metalsmith-react-templates": {
      "baseFile": "base.html",
      "isStatic": true,
      "directory": "templates"
    }
  }
}

Javascript Usage

Simplest use case:

var templates = require('metalsmith-react-templates');

metalsmith.use(templates());

To specify additional options:

metalsmith.use(templates({
  baseFile: 'base.html'
  isStatic: true,
  directory: 'templates'
}));

Usage Notes

Specifying Templates

If a rtemplate field is set in the yaml front-matter of your markdown files, metalsmith-react-templates will use the specified template instead of default.jsx

You can also set noConflict to false and the plugin will use the template field instead of rtemplate field in the yaml front-matter.

Webpack / Build Systems

If you import css or any other non-standard js code using 'require', you might want to make use of the requireIgnoreExt to ignore those files.

Options

baseFile (optional)

default: null

Specifies a file which the contents of the react template will render into.

This is similar to the index.html file which you React.render() your components in.

In your base file, put {{content}} in the location where you want your data will render into.

isStatic (optional)

default: true

Since this is a static site generator, by default, it will render the React Templates using renderToStaticMarkup()

However, you may choose to make a static site generator with React functionalities (similar to first render from server) and subsequently pull page routes via JavaScript / React.

Setting this parameter to false will cause templates to be parsed using renderToString()

noConflict (optional)

default: true

By default, this plugin will read from the rtemplate key in your yaml front-matter. However, if this is the only templating plugin, you may set noConflict to false to use the template key instead.

directory (optional)

default: templates

Sets the directory which your react templates (or baseFile) resides.

pattern (optional)

default: **/*

Specifies a file filter pattern

html (optional)

default: true

Renames files from *.md to *.html

preserve (optional)

default: false

Stores a copy of un-templated contents into rawContents meta.

tooling (optional)

default: {}

requireIgnoreExt (optional)

default: []

A list of extensions to ignore. For example, {requireIgnoreExt: ['.css']} would ignore declarations like require('file.css')

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• License

MIT © Gerald Yeo