grunt-kot2html

Grunt task to combine Knockout templates into one HTML for the Knockout.js-External-Template-Engine.

Based on https://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2014/01/31/using-external-templates-knockout-js/ and https://github.com/rniemeyer/SamplePresentation/blob/master/js/stringTemplateEngine.js

See also grunt-kot2js.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-kot2html --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-kot2html');

Although I recommend using load-grunt-tasks

The "kot2html" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named kot2html to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
    kot2html: {
        dist: {
            prefix: '/theme/',
            src: 'templates/**/*.html',
            dest: 'custom-templates.html'
        }
    }
});

Example output:

<script type="text/html" id="/theme/templates/TemplateA">
    <span class="a" data-bind="text: foo"></span>
</script>
<script type="text/html" id="/theme/templates/TemplateB">
    <span class="a" data-bind="text: bar"></span>
</script>

Properties

prefix

Type: String

Prefix that is prepended to the template id along with the path. E.g. if the prefix is /theme/ and the path of a template is templates/bar.html, the templateId will be /theme/template/bar (without .html).

srcRoot

Type: String

Root of the input path. This part is not included in the template ID, in contrast to the src property.

src

Type: String

Input path. Location of the HTML Knockout Templates. Expects template files to have the .html extension

dest

Type: String

Output path. Location of the combined HTML file.

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the sources are files with the .html extension in the templates dir and the generated file is custom-templates.html in the root dir.

grunt.initConfig({
    kot2html: {
        dist: {
            prefix: '/theme/',
            src: 'templates/**/*.html',
            dest: 'custom-templates.html'
        }
    }
});

Contributing

Follow the jshintrc settings for the code style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 2015-03-25 v0.1.0 initial release
• 2016-02-25 v0.3.0 added srcRoot property

To Do

• When committing got: warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in test/expected/dev. This means that the unit test will fail.
• Add lintspaces
• add minification of generated HTML (at least remove all spaces)
• add template to unit test with same path as generated HTML