ar-templater

2.0.3 • Public • Published

AR-templater

NPM

AR-templater internationalize your HTML files and compile its to tempate functions if it's needed


Installation

As usual via npm


Usage

If you use the config file it must be a CommonJS module

Node API

const templater = require( 'ar-templater' )
 
const arg = './path/to/config/file'
// or
const arg = { langDir: './langs', ... } // configuration object
 
// to compile all templates
templater.build( arg[, callback ] )
 

or

const templater = require( 'ar-templater' )
 
const arg = './path/to/config/file'
// or
const arg = { langDir: './langs', ... } // configuration object
 
// to create watcher for incrementals build. at start it will execute `build` function
const watcher = templater.createWatcher( arg )
 
watcher.on( 'start', function() {
  console.log( 'start event triggered' )
} )
 
watcher.on( 'stop', function() {
  console.log( 'stop  event triggered' )
} )
 
watcher.on( 'file:change', function( { filePath } ) {
  console.log( 'file changed - ', filePath )
} )
 
watcher.on( 'file:remove', function( { filePath } ) {
  console.log( 'file removed - ', filePath )
} )
 
watcher.start()
// watcher also has a `stop` method
// watcher.stop()
 
 

CLI

./node_modules/.bin/ar-templater [COMMAND] [ARGS]

...or if you install it globally:

ar-templater [COMMAND] [ARGS]

For more information see ar-templater help


Configuration options reference

NOTE that options langDir, templatesSrc and dest are required

Option Type Description Default
langDir string Specifies the path to find the language definitions undefined
templatesSrc string Pattern for matching to file paths like Unix shell style. See node-glob undefined
dest string The path (output directory) to write files to. If the directory doesn't exist it will be created undefined
templatesInterpolate regexp The regular expression used for matching the variables. See more at lodash docs /<%=([\s\S]+?)%>/g
translatesInterpolate regexp The regular expression used for matching the language tags /\$\{\{([\s\S]+?)\}\}\$/g
minify boolean Minify HTML code and JS template functions false
compareCtime boolean false
htmlminifyOptions { [ string ]: any } html-minifier options. See more here {}
langFallback string If some translations of the phrases don't exist it will be used translations from this language 'en'
customLangFallbacks { [ string ]: string } Custom languages fallbacks, for example if this option was setted to { be: 'ru' }, words that is not finded in be language will be taken from ru {}
varNameModificator ( filePath: string ) => string Modifies the property name of file content in generated result filePath => filePath
output object Option to specify output files format and name {}
output.type string The format of the generated files. One of the following [ 'amd', 'commonjs', 'esm' ] 'amd'
output.name ( langCode: string ) => string Function that modifies file name to write to. By default it returns just a language code. The extension (.js) is added automatically langCode => langCode
langsFilter object Filters languages to compile. Helpful for development {}
langsFilter.excludes Array<string> Excludes languages. this parameter has a higher priority than includes []
langsFilter.includes Array<string> Includes languages []

Reasons for creating

Due to some circumstances in our project we used gulp and a few plugins to it (let their names remain a secret) to build the templates. With the increase of the code base the compilation of only the templates became slower and slower. And breaking dependencies made more and more discontent while I upgraded packages. In the end I had to write something else. The problem with the dependencies naturally was resolved. And the acceleration of the compilation speed has been a pleasant surprise. Naked stats:

In the project:

  • 167 template files
  • ~5500 lines of code in this files
  • 17 languages

The compilation speed before:

  • on init - ~37 seconds
  • incremental - ~1.2 seconds

The compilation speed during using this package:

  • on init - ~0.7sec ( ~4 sec with minify option)
  • incremental - 0.2 seconds

Example

languge definitions
// ./langs/en/main.js
module.exports = {
  nameDescription: 'This is the item name',
  hello: 'Hello!'
}
 
// ./langs/de/main.js
module.exports = {
  nameDescription: 'Dies ist der name',
  hello: 'Hallo!'
}
 
// ./langs/ru/main.js
module.exports = {
  nameDescription: 'Это имя элемента',
  hello: 'Привет!'
}
 
 
input
<!-- ./tpls/tpl.html -->
<li>
  <span title="${{ main.nameDescription }}$"><%= name %></span>
  <span><%= price %></span>
</li>
 
<!-- ./tpls/plain.html -->
<h1>${{ main.hello }}$</h1>
 
config
module.exports = {
  langDir: './langs',
  templatesSrc: './tpls/**/*.html'
  dest: './dest',
  minify: false,
  output: {
    type: 'esm',
    name: langCode => `my-template-${langCode}`
  }
 
}
 
output(without minification)
// ./dest/my-template-en.js
export default {
  "tpls/tpl.html": function(obj){
    var __t,__p='',__j=Array.prototype.join,print=function(){__p+=__j.call(arguments,'');};
    with(obj||{}){
    __p+='<li>   <span title=\"This is the item name\">'+
    ((__t=( name ))==null?'':__t)+
    '</span>   <span>'+
    ((__t=( price ))==null?'':__t)+
    '</span> </li>';
    }
    return __p;
  },
 
  "tpls/plain.html": '<h1>Hello!</h1>'
}
 
 
// ./dest/my-template-de.js
export default {
  "tpls/tpl.html": function(obj){
    var __t,__p='',__j=Array.prototype.join,print=function(){__p+=__j.call(arguments,'');};
    with(obj||{}){
    __p+='<li>   <span title=\"Dies ist der name\">'+
    ((__t=( name ))==null?'':__t)+
    '</span>   <span>'+
    ((__t=( price ))==null?'':__t)+
    '</span> </li>';
    }
    return __p;
  },
 
  "tpls/plain.html": '<h1>Hallo!</h1>'
}
 
 
 
// ./dest/my-template-ru.js
export default {
  "tpls/tpl.html": function(obj){
    var __t,__p='',__j=Array.prototype.join,print=function(){__p+=__j.call(arguments,'');};
    with(obj||{}){
    __p+='<li>   <span title=\"Это имя элемента\">'+
    ((__t=( name ))==null?'':__t)+
    '</span>   <span>'+
    ((__t=( price ))==null?'':__t)+
    '</span> </li>';
    }
    return __p;
  },
 
  "tpls/plain.html": '<h1>Привет!</h1>'
}
 
 
 

Demo

npm run test
npm run test:watcher

Demo is located at ./demo directory

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