TpltonPeck

Light Template Engine - Templeton "Faceman" Peck

Based on the famous character name from ATeam Serie from the 80's, Templeton "Faceman" Peck, here is a light template engine based on a short configuration and easy to modelise architecture (usefull for emails).

Release note

1.0.3 - 09/26/2019 - Remove first argument on readFile function to avoid complicated configuration

Architecture

To use TpltonPeck, you must follow a certain architecture :

/<src>
  /chuncks
    /<type>
      /file.<type>
  /partials
    /<type>
      /file.<type>
  /file.<type>

Explanations :

• src is the folder you want to store your templates
• You must have a file.< type > where type is the type of your file (html, text, yaml...), you can set this value to raw to use raw text instead of a file template.

Configuration

For each template, you must set a configuration.

rootURL {String} Mandatory : it's the main url for your templates folder. Can be relative.

main {String} Mandatory : The main template file, or, the content to format, if type is set to raw

type {String} Mandatory : This value depends of your template files. You can use either html, text, or all other file format you want to use. You can use raw to not use file, but use main as the text to format.

texts {Object} Mandatory : This value is an Object combining key/values. For each key inside the template, it will be replaced by its value. Use % symbol around your variable name inside your template to use it as a template variable.

%title%
%date%
%content%
%amountValue%
%policyholder_firstName%

const configuration = {
  ...
  texts: {
    key: "Here is a key that will not be %processed%"
  }
}

In the example above, %processed% will not be processed.

partials {Array} Optional : Partials are chunck of data you want to implement inside your main file.

Be aware that you can't put a partial inside an another partial.

Just put the partial file, inside your partials/<type>/ directory with the proper <type> file extention.

You can add as many as you want texts variables inside a partial.

You must use the following notation inside your main template to specify to the template engine that you use a partial %partial__...% :

<section>
  <section role="main">
    %partial__content%
  </section>
  <footer>
    %partial__footer%
  </footer>
</section>

You must prefix the name of your partial with partial__, and, as for the texts variable, add % around the variable name.

%partial__< partialName >%

chuncks {Array} Optional :

Here is a html example

const configuration = {
  rootURL: './templates',
  main: 'index',
  type: 'html',
  texts: {
    title: 'Page title',
    pageContent: 'Lorem Ipsum est dolor\nsit Amet est.'
  },
  partials: ['header', 'footer'],
  chuncks: [
    {
      name: 'chunckName',
      values: [
        {
          key: 'value'
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
};

Here is a text example

const configuration = {
  rootURL: './templates',
  main: 'index',
  type: 'text',
  texts: {
    title: 'Page title',
    pageContent: 'Lorem Ipsum est dolor\nsit Amet est.'
  }
};

Here is a raw example

const configuration = {
  rootURL: './templates',
  main: 'Links awakening on Nintendo Switch will be release on %date%',
  type: 'raw',
  texts: {
    date: 'September 20, 2019'
  }
};

How to use

Tests