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vinyl-view

Extends vinyl with render and compile methods, and properties used for rendering templates.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save vinyl-view

Usage

Use the same way you would use a vinyl file:

var View = require('vinyl-view');
var view = new View({path: 'foo'});

API

View

Create an instance of View. Optionally pass a default object to use.

Params

view {Object}

Example

var view = new View({
  path: 'foo.html',
  contents: new Buffer('...')
});

.compile

Synchronously compile a view.

Params

locals {Object}: Optionally pass locals to the engine.
returns {Object} View: instance, for chaining.

Example

var view = page.compile();
view.fn({title: 'A'});
view.fn({title: 'B'});
view.fn({title: 'C'});

.renderSync

Synchronously render templates in view.content.

Params

locals {Object}: Optionally pass locals to the engine.
returns {Object} View: instance, for chaining.

Example

var view = new View({content: 'This is <%= title %>'});
view.renderSync({title: 'Home'});
console.log(view.content);

.render

Asynchronously render templates in view.content.

Params

locals {Object}: Context to use for rendering templates.

Example

view.render({title: 'Home'}, function(err, res) {
  //=> view object with rendered `content`
});

Create a context object from locals and the view.data and view.locals objects. The view.data property is typically created from front-matter, and view.locals is used when a new View() is created.

This method be overridden either by defining a custom view.options.context function to customize context for a view instance, or static View.context function to customize context for all view instances.

Params

locals {Object}: Optionally pass a locals object to merge onto the context.
returns {Object}: Returns the context object.

Example

var page = new View({path: 'a/b/c.txt', locals: {a: 'b', c: 'd'}});
var ctx = page.context({a: 'z'});
console.log(ctx);
//=> {a: 'z', c: 'd'}

.isType

Returns true if the view is the given viewType. Returns false if no type is assigned. When used with vinyl-collections, types are assigned by their respective collections.

Params

type {String}: (renderable, partial, layout)

Example

var view = new View({path: 'a/b/c.txt', viewType: 'partial'})
view.isType('partial');

.View.context

Define a custom static View.context function to override default .context behavior. See the context docs for more info.

Params

locals {Object}
returns {Object}

Example

// custom context function
View.context = function(locals) {
  // `this` is the view being rendered
  return locals;
};

About

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command: