@dotlabel/temple NPM

Temple

Super simple utility to scaffold templated files

Example

temple render readme.hjs > README.md

Temple will pull templates from its storage and use data from your package.json to output a rendered file.

Installation

npm i -g @dotlabel/temple

## Usage

Temple is self-documenting as much as possible, use --help to get additional information about Temple and each command.

temple --help
temple render --help

Temple needs only a couple of things to work

A template engine specification
Some templates

Specifying and installing templating engines

Temple uses consolidate to render templates and will not install engines unless instructed to do so.

A template engine specification consists of three fields that you need to consider:

{
  "name": "hogan",
  "module": "hogan.js",
  "extensions": [
    "hjs",
    "hogan"
  ]
}

name the identifier shared with consolidate
module the module name to install from npm when required
extensions Temple will attempt to match template file extensions to those listed by the engine specification i.e. readme.hjs would imply using hogan to render the template.

The easiest way to register a template is to stream in a specification

echo '{"module":"hogan.js","extensions":["hjs"]}' | temple engine hogan

There are a few other options, see temple engine --help.

Once the specification is loaded then you’re free to install it, although Temple will prompt you if you forget this step and try to use a template file requiring the engine.

temple engine --install hogan

Specifying a template file

Easiest way is to stream the template file in.

echo '# {{ name }}' | temple register readme.hjs

See temple register --help

Rendering a template file

Once you have a few templates and at least one engine registered with Temple you’re set to get going

temple render readme.hjs > README.md

In these examples we have registered hogan as a templating engine and added a readme.hjs template file, when we attempt to render it Temple checks the extensions, finds that it matches hogan and uses hogan.js to render the template to stdout, additionally prompting to install hogan.js if necessary.