Static Pages / File writer

Writes contents of a page data to file.

Usage

import fileWriter from '@static-pages/file-writer';

const write = fileWriter({
  outDir: 'dist',
  outFile: d => d.url + '.html',
  renderer: d => d.body,
  onOverwrite: fileName => console.log(fileName),
  onInvalidPath: fileName => console.log(fileName),
});

const pageData = {
  url: 'folder/file',
  body: '[file contents]',
};

write({ value: pageData });

Docs

@static-pages/file-writer@5 and higher versions are compatible with @static-pages/core@6 and higher versions.

writer(options: Options): void

Options

• options.outDir (default: dist) sets the output directory.
• options.outFile resolves the file name based on the provided page data.
• options.renderer renders the file contents based on the provided page data.
• options.onOverwrite callback function that gets executed when a file name collision occurs. Defaults to log on the console.
• options.onInvalidPath callback function that gets executed when a file name contains invalid characters. Defaults to log on the console.

outFile defaults

The default behaviour is to guess file path by a few possible properties of the data:

• if data.url is defined, append .html and use that.
• if data.header.path is defined, replace extension to .html and use that.
• if nothing matches call the onInvalidPath handler with undefined file name.

renderer defaults

The default behaviour is to retrieve file contents from data.body.

Tip: you can implement your own rendering logic in the renderer callback, eg: renderer: d => myRenderingLibrary.render('template', d).

Where to use this?

This module can be used to generate static HTML pages. Read more at the Static Pages JS project page.