Angular-inject-templates NPM

angular-inject-templates

gulp plugin to include the contents of angular templates inside directive's code

Plugin searches for templateUrl: {template url} and replace it with template: {minified template content}. To archive this template first minified with minimize

Nearest neighbours are:

gulp-angular-templates - good for single page applications, combine all templates in one module. angular-inject-templates is better for multi page applications, where different pages use different set of angular directives so combining all templates in one is not an option. For single page applications they are similar but angular-inject-templates doesn't forces you to change your code for using some additional module: just replace template reference with the template code.
gulp-include-file - can be used for the same purpose (file include) with minimize plugin as transform functions. angular-inject-templates do all of this out of the box.

Install

npm install --save-dev angular-inject-templates

Usage

Given the following javascript file:

angular.module('test').directive('helloWorld', function () {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        templateUrl: 'hello-world-template.html'
    };
});

And the following hello-world-template.html in the same directory (actually it can be anywhere):

<strong>
    Hello world!
</strong>

This module will generate the following file:

angular.module('test').directive('helloWorld', function () {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        template:'<strong>Hello world!</strong>'
    };
});

Using this example gulpfile:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var injectTemplates = require('angular-inject-templates');

gulp.task('js:build', function () {
    gulp.src('src/scripts/**/*.js')
        .pipe(injectTemplates())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./dist'));
});