BEM template render for Sails js

• BEM: http://bem.info
• Sailsjs: http://sailsjs.org

Install

(sails >= 0.11)

• add this hook to package.json: npm i sails-hook-bem-render --save
• use in your controllers res.render(data)

(sails < 0.11) also needs explicit hooks declaration:

• create bem-render folder in api/hooks
• create index.js file in api/hooks/bem-render/
• write in api/hooks/bem-render/index.js this:

   module.exports = require('sails-hook-bem-render');

Usage

For example project see sails-bem-project-stub.

1. Create a /views/common directory for BEM blocks.
2. Create /views/.enb directory with make-config file for enb assembler. You can copy config from sails-bem-project-stub/frontend/.enb/make.js. Notice: there is only desktop config yet.
3. Create /views/desktop.bundles/index/index.bemdecl.js file – dependency declaration for enb assembler:

exports.blocks = [
    {block: 'page'} // Other dependencies will be declare in `page` block.
];

4. Add dependencies: 4.1 npm dependency for BEM and enb to package.json:

  "dependencies": {
    "vow": "^0.4.5",
    "ym": "^0.1.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "bem": "^0.9.0",
    "borschik": "^1.3.0",
    "borschik-tech-cleancss": "^1.0.0",
    "bower": "^1.3.9",
    "enb": "^0.13.7",
    "enb-autoprefixer": "^0.1.1",
    "enb-bem": "0.1.0-beta2",
    "enb-bemxjst": "^1.3.2",
    "enb-borschik": "^1.1.1",
    "enb-diverse-js": "^0.1.0",
    "enb-modules": "^0.2.0",
    "enb-stylus": "1.1.2"
    }

4.2 bower:

  "dependencies": {
    "bem-core": "2.6.0"
  }

Don't forget to add .bowerrc file:

{
    "directory": "views/libs"
}

5. After you add your blocks, run node_modules/.bin/enb make -d views --no-cache. It will compile BEMTREE, BEMHTML, assemble js, CSS into views/desktop.bundles/merged folder.
6. So, in BEMTREE-template page block you can access data by this.ctx.data. NB: you can find req (req.session, req.path and other useful stuff) object in this.ctx.data.req.