AngularJS Template loader for webpack

Based on ngtemplate-loader

Includes your AngularJS templates into your webpack Javascript Bundle.

SimpleNgTemplate loader does not minify or process your HTML at all, and instead uses the standard loaders such as html-loader or raw-loader. This gives you the flexibility to pick and choose your HTML loaders.

Install

npm install simple-ngtemplate-loader --save-dev

Usage

Documentation: Using loaders

SimpleNgTemplate loader will export the path of the HTML file, so you can use require directly AngularJS with templateUrl parameters e.g.

var templateUrl = require('simple-ngtemplate-loader!html!./test.html');

app.directive('testDirective', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        templateUrl: templateUrl
    }
});

To remove the extra require, check out the Baggage Example below.

Beware of requiring from the directive definition

The following code is wrong, Because it'll operate only after angular bootstraps:

app.directive('testDirective', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        templateUrl: require('simple-ngtemplate-loader!html!./test.html') // <- WRONG !
    }
});

relativeTo and prefix

You can set the base path of your templates using relativeTo and prefix parameters. relativeTo is used to strip a matching prefix from the absolute path of the input html file. prefix is then appended to path.

The prefix of the path up to and including the first relativeTo match is stripped, e.g.

require('!simple-ngtemplate-loader?relativeTo=/src/!html!/test/src/test.html');
// c.put('test.html', ...)

To match the from the start of the absolute path prefix a '//', e.g.

require('!simple-ngtemplate-loader?relativeTo=//Users/WearyMonkey/project/test/!html!/test/src/test.html');
// c.put('src/test.html', ...)

You can combine relativeTo and prefix to replace the prefix in the absolute path, e.g.

require('!simple-ngtemplate-loader?relativeTo=src/&prefix=build/!html!/test/src/test.html');
// c.put('build/test.html', ...)

Parameter Interpolation

relativeTo and prefix parameters are interpolated using Webpack's standard interpolation rules. Interpolation regular expressions can be passed using the extra parameters relativeToRegExp and prefixRegExp which apply to single parameters, or regExp which will apply to all three parameters.

Path Separators (Or using on Windows)

By default, SimpleNgTemplate loader will assume you are using unix style path separators '/' for html paths in your project. e.g. templateUrl: '/views/app.html'. If however you want to use Window's style path separators '' e.g. templateUrl: '\\views\\app.html' you can override the separator by providing the pathSep parameter.

require('simple-ngtemplate-loader?pathSep=\\!html!.\\test.html')

Make sure you use the same path separator for the prefix and relativeTo parameters, all templateUrls and in your webpack.config.js file.

Webpack Config

It's recommended to adjust your webpack.config so simple-ngtemplate-loader!html! is applied automatically on all files ending with .html. For Webpack 1 this would be something like:

module.exports = {
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.html$/,
        loader: 'simple-ngtemplate-loader?relativeTo=' + (path.resolve(__dirname, './app')) + '/!html'
      }
    ]
  }
};

For Webpack 2 this would be something like:

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.html$/,
        use: [
          { loader:'simple-ngtemplate-loader?relativeTo=' + (path.resolve(__dirname, './app')) },
          { loader: 'html-loader' }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

Make sure you already have html-loader installed. Then you only need to write: require('file.html').

Baggage Example

SimpleNgTemplate loader works well with the Baggage Loader to remove all those extra HTML and CSS requires. See an example of a directive and webpack.config.js below. Or take a look at more complete example in the examples/baggage folder.

With a folder structure:

app/
├── app.js
├── index.html
├── webpack.config.js
└── my-directive/
    ├── my-directive.js
    ├── my-directive.css
    └── my-directive.html

and a webpack.config.js for webpack 1 like:

module.exports = {
  module: {
    preLoaders: [
      { 
        test: /\.js$/, 
        loader: 'baggage?[file].html&[file].css' 
      }
    ],
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.html$/,
        loader: 'simple-ngtemplate-loader?relativeTo=' + __dirname + '/!html'
      }
    ]
  }
};

For webpack 2 like:

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      { 
        test: /\.js$/, 
        enforce: 'pre',
        use: [{ loader:'baggage?[file].html&[file].css'  }]
      },
      {
        test: /\.html$/,
        use: [
          { loader: 'simple-ngtemplate-loader?relativeTo=' + __dirname + '/' },
          { loader: 'html-loader' }]
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
};

You can now skip the initial require of html and css like so:

app.directive('myDirective', function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        templateUrl: require('./my-directive.html')
    }
});

License

MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)