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Reshape Layouts

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Layout inheritance using block and extend, inspired by (jade/pug).

Installation

npm i reshape-layouts --save

Usage

Let's say we have a base template:

base.html

<html>
    <head>
        <block name='title'>
          <title>Default Title</title>
        </block>
    </head>

    <body>
        <div class="content">
           <block name="content"></block>
        </div>
        <footer>
            <block name="footer">footer content</block>
        </footer>
    </body>
</html>

Now we can inherit this template. All defined blocks inside <extends> will replace the blocks with the same name in the parent template. If the block is not defined inside <extends> its content in the parent template remains the same.

In the example the blocks title and content will be replaced and the block footer will remain unchanged:

const reshape = require('reshape')
const layouts = require('reshape-layouts')

const html = '<extends src="base.html">' +
               '<block name="title"><title>How to use reshape-layouts</title></block>' +
               '<block name="content">Read the documentation</block>'
             '</extends>'

reshape({
  plugins: layouts({
    encoding: 'utf8', // Parent template encoding (default: 'utf8')
    root: './' // Path to parent template directory (default: './')
  })
}).process(html)
  .then((res) => res.output())

The final HTML will be:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>How to use reshape-layouts</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <div class="content">Read the documentation</div>
    <footer>footer content</footer>
  </body>
</html>

Append & Prepend

It's also possible to append and prepend block's content

const reshape = require('reshape')
const layouts = require('reshape-layouts')

const html = '<extends src="base.html">' +
               '<block name="title" type="prepend"><meta name="description" content="test"></block>' +
               '<block name="content">Read the documentation</block>' +
               '<block name="footer" type="append">— 2016</block>'
           '</extends>'

reshape({ plugins: layouts() })
  .process(html)
  .then((res) => res.output())

The final HTML will be:

<html>
  <head>
    <meta name="description" content="test">
    <title>How to use reshape-layouts</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="content">Read the documentation</div>
    <footer>footer content — 2016</footer>
  </body>
</html>

Caveats

There are a number of tags that have their contents parsed as plaintext and cannot contain nested html tags. If you place a block tag inside any of these elements, it will not behave as expected, and instead will be rendered as plaintext. These are the tags that are content-only: title, noscript, noframes, style, script, xmp, iframe, noembed.

Options

All options are optional, none are required.

Name Description Default
root root to resolve layout paths from reshape filename option
encoding encoding with which to read layout files utf8

Reporting Dependencies

This plugin will report its dependencies in the standard format as dictated by reshape-loader if you pass dependencies: [] as an option to reshape when it runs. Dependencies will be available on the output object under the dependencies key. For example:

const reshape = require('reshape')
const include = require('reshape-layouts')

reshape({ plugins: [layouts()], dependencies: []})
  .process(someHtml)
  .then((res) => {
    console.log(res.dependencies)
    console.log(res.output())
  })

If you are using this with webpack, reshape-loader takes care of the dependency reporting and you don't have to do anything 😁

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