gulp-assign-to-jade

gulp plugin to assign file contents to the Jade template as a local variable

const gulp = require('gulp');
const assignToJade = require('gulp-assign-to-jade');

gulp.task('default', () => {
  return gulp.src('contents.txt')      // contents.txt      : 'Hello'
    .pipe(assignToJade('layout.jade')) // layout.jade       : 'div= contents'
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dest'))           // dest/contents.html: '<div>Hello</div>'
});

Installation

Use npm.

npm install --save-dev gulp-assign-to-jade

API

const assignToJade = require('gulp-assign-to-jade');

assignToJade(templatePath [, options])

templatePath: String (path to a .jade file)
options: Object (directly passed to gulp-jade options)
Return: Object (stream.Transform)

It compiles the Jade template with passing the string of source file contents to the compiler as contents variable. data property of the contents are also used.

options.varName

Type: String
Default: contents

Sets the variable name to which the file contents will be assigned.

const path = require('path');
const gulp = require('gulp');
const assignToJade = require('gulp-assign-to-jade');
const data = require('gulp-data');

function setTitle(file) {
  return: {title: path.basename(file.path)};
}

gulp.task('default', () => {
  return gulp.src('src.txt')            // src.txt      : 'Hi'
    .pipe(data(setTitle)) 
    .pipe(assignToJade('layout.jade', { // template.jade: 'h1= title\np=  body'
      varName: 'body'
    })) 
    .pipe(gulp.dest('dest'))            // dest/src.html: '<h1>src</h1><p>Hi</p>'
});

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Shinnosuke Watanabe

Licensed under the MIT License.