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Part of the Node Water collection.

Introduction

• fragment-include - Wash your files with this preprocessor and then DRY.
  • On github.com
  • On npmjs.org

So What Does it Do?!

It's a command line tool call called fipp (fragment include pre-processor), that helps you include fragments from some files into others, so you Dont Repeat Yourself.

Great for including examples from your code in your documentation.

How Does it Work?

fipp instructions are embedded in your files using comments. This means they won't effect the normal use of your files, but fipp parse for and use them.

There are two kinds of files fipp works with, source and target. The most basic use of fipp is:

fipp <target>

fipp will parse the target file looking for fragment-include* instuctions which it replaces with fragments from source files. Fragments in the source files are denfined using fragment-define* instuctions. There are five instuctions in total.

• fragment-include {source}{fragmentid} - shorthand for pair of fragment-include-start and fragment-include-end tags.
• fragment-include-start {source}{fragmentid} - the start of a fragment-include region in a target file.
• fragment-include-end - the end of a fragment-include region in a target file.
• fragment-define-start {fragmentid} - the start of a fragment definition in a source file.
• fragment-define-end - the end of a fragment definition in a source file.

fipp uses the following logic.

1. Replaces any fragment-include instructions with a pair of fragment-include-start and fragment-include-end instructions.
2. Anything between a fragment-include-start and fragment-include-end instruction is defined as an include region.
3. Extracts all {source}{fragmentid} references from the fragment-include-start {source}{fragmentid} instructions.
4. Extracts the fragments from the source files specified by {source}. Fragments are defined as everything between a fragment-define-start {fragmentid} and a fragment-define-end instruction.
5. Inserts the fragments extracted from source files into the include regions defined in the target file.

Comments Reference

• .html or .md - comments must start with <!--- and end with --->.
• .js - comments must start with /*** and end with ***/.

Installation

Official releases can be obtained from:

• github.com - the tags section provides links to zip or tar.gz packages.
• npm - use npm install -g fragment-include

The lastest developed code may node have not have been released, but can always be found from:

• github.com - the project homepage provides links to all the source code, branches and issue tracking.

Help

See the output of fipp --help