koa-render-view

Koa2 template render middleware

Installation

  $ npm install --save koa-render-view

Examples

Basic usage

const views = require('koa-render-view');
const path = require('path');

app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views')));
app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
  await render('index', {
    message: "Hello world"
  });
});

React server side rendering example

  $ npm install --save react react-dom babel-preset-react

test.jsx

const React = require('react');

class Test extends React.Component {
    render() {
        return (
            <p>
                {this.props.message}
            </p>
        );
    }
}

module.exports = Test;

app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views')));
app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
  await render('test.jsx', {
    message: "Hello world"
  });
});

Parameters usage

app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views'), {
      recursive: true,
      map: {
        html: "ejs"
      }
}));
app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
  await render('index', {
    message: "Hello world"
  });
});

Aliases usage

const views = require('koa-render-view');
const data = {
    message: "Hello world"
};

app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views'), {
  aliases: [{
      alias: "@alias", //alias it is any string, but alias cann`t contain symbols from path \/. 
      path: path.join(__dirname, "viewXXX")
  }]
}));
app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
  await render('index', data); //render index.html from views 
});

app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
  await render('@alias/index', data);//render index.html from alias path ( "viewXXX" )
});

Multiple view folders

If folders "views" and "views1" contain the same file, will be conflict and render any from the same file. For example:

const views = require('koa-render-view');
const path = require('path');

/*
  views
    -index.html
    
  views1
    -index.html
*/

app.use(views([
  path.join(__dirname, '/views'),
  path.join(__dirname, '/views1')
  ]));
app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
  await render('index', data);
});

In this case midleware renders first index.html in its file list. To decide this you need to write part of path

  await render('views/index', data);// render index.html from views
  await render('views1/index', data);// render index.html from views1

API

views( {(string|string[])}, parameters )

[parameters.engine=consolidate]

Template engine. Custom engine example:

  const engine = {
    html: (filePath, data) => {
      return "...";
   }
  app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views'), {engine}))

[parameters.cache=true]

If cache true builds list of files when you create view middleware

  fs.writeFileSync("views/x.html", MESSAGE);
  app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views')))
  app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
    await render('x.html', data); //thats work
  });

But in this case, it doesn`t work, you need to set cache: false

  app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views')))
  app.use(async function ({render}, next) {
    fs.writeFileSync("views/x.html", MESSAGE);
    await render('x.html', data); //error
  });

[parameters.extension="html"]

Default file extension, if extension === "html",then render("index") equals render("index.html")

[parameters.recursive=false]

Recursive read directory

[parameters.map={}]

It is map extenstion to render engine

  app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views'), {
    xejs: "ejs" // render file with extension .xejs by ejs engine
  }))

[parameters.aliases=[]]

You can create alias for path to your views

• alias - must be a string starts from @,#,!,$,_ symbols and doesn`t contain symbols /\.
• path - absolute path to directory

app.use(views(path.join(__dirname, '/views'), {
  aliases: [{
      alias: "@alias",
      path: path.join(__dirname, "viewXXX")
  }]
}));

await render('index', data); //render views/index.html
await render('@alias/index', data); //render viewXXX/index.html
await render('@alias/deep/index', data); //render viewXXX/deep/index.html

[parameters.options={}]

Render options field, these options will pass to render engine as parameters

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Artem Shtepenko

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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