gulp-attach-to-template

gulp plugin to take a stream of Vinyl files and attach them to a template

Why?

This module is very similar to the excellent gulp-apply-template. It differs in the following ways:

1. It's version is >=1.0.0, so semver is more useful
2. Its usage is simpler
3. It doesn't use consolidate.js and instead expects you to render templates yourself (this also means it pulls the template from the file stream instead of reading it directly, which is a [admittedly widespread] gulp antipattern)

These items are a matter of personal preference, to varying degrees. Feel free to use gulp-apply-template if you think that style is more readable.

Installation

npm install gulp-attach-to-template

Example

Minimal example:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var attachToTemplate = require('gulp-attach-to-template');
var addsrc = require('gulp-add-src');

gulp.task('template', function() {
    return gulp.src('*.md')
               .pipe(addsrc('template.jade'))
               .pipe(attachToTemplate('template.jade'));
});

Full example:

var gulp = require('gulp');
var remark = require('gulp-remark');
var remarkHtml = require('remark-html');
var attachToTemplate = require('gulp-attach-to-template');
var addsrc = require('gulp-add-src');
var jade = require('gulp-jade');
var rename = require('gulp-rename');

gulp.task('template', function() {
    return gulp.src('*.md')
               .pipe(remark().use(remarkHtml))
               .pipe(addsrc('template.jade'))
               .pipe(attachToTemplate('template.jade'))
               .pipe(jade({basedir: __dirname}))
               .pipe(rename({ extname: '.html' }))
               .pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});

What's happening here? First we read in some Markdown files from disk and render them to HTML. Then we add template.jade into the stream of files. template.jade is what will be used for the template.

When we pipe all the files to attachToTemplate, we pass it the name of the template file. From there, gulp-attach-to-template will output copies of this template, one for each file. The Vinyl file object will be available to the template as the file local, and the template copy's path will be set to the path of its file local. (That is, each template copy will inherit the Vinyl path of whatever's attached to it.)

The rest is just standard gulp: we render the Jade, rename the templates to .html files, and write to the dist directory.

License

LGPL 3.0+

Author

Alex Jordan alex@strugee.net