karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor

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Preprocessor for converting HTML files to AngularJS 1.x templates.

Note: If you are looking for a general preprocessor that is not tied to Angular, check out karma-html2js-preprocessor.

Note: If you are using Angular 2.x, use karma-redirect-preprocessor.

Installation

The easiest way is to keep karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor as a devDependency in your package.json. Just run

$ npm install karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor --save-dev

Configuration

// karma.conf.js
module.exports = function(config) {
  config.set({
    preprocessors: {
      'Areas/Common/Modules/**/*.cshtml': ['ng-html2js-custom'],
    },

    files: [
      '*.js',
      '*.html',
      '*.html.ext',
      // if you wanna load template files in nested directories, you must use this
      '**/*.html'
    ],

    // if you have defined plugins explicitly, add karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor
    // plugins: [
    //     <your plugins>
    //     'karma-ng-html2js-preprocessor',
    // ]

    ngHtml2JsPreprocessor: {
      maps: {
        'Areas/Common/Modules/**/Templates/': 'common/{0}/'
      },
      fileNameFormatter: function(fileName) {
        if (fileName.indexOf('.cshtml') > -1) {
          // Camel to file case
          var formatted = fileName.replace(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g, "$1-$2").toLowerCase();
          return formatted.replace('.cshtml', '').toLowerCase();
        }

        return fileName;
      }
    }
  })
}

Multiple module names

Use function if more than one module that contains templates is required.

// karma.conf.js
module.exports = function(config) {
  config.set({
    // ...

    ngHtml2JsPreprocessor: {
      // ...

      moduleName: function (htmlPath, originalPath) {
        return htmlPath.split('/')[0];
      }
    }
  })
}

If only some of the templates should be placed in the modules, return '', null or undefined for those which should not.

// karma.conf.js
module.exports = function(config) {
  config.set({
    // ...

    ngHtml2JsPreprocessor: {
      // ...

      moduleName: function (htmlPath, originalPath) {
        var module = htmlPath.split('/')[0];
        return module !== 'tpl' ? module : null;
      }
    }
  })
}

How does it work ?

This preprocessor converts HTML files into JS strings and generates Angular modules. These modules, when loaded, puts these HTML files into the $templateCache and therefore Angular won't try to fetch them from the server.

For instance this template.html...

<div>something</div>

... will be served as template.html.js:

angular.module('template.html', []).run(function($templateCache) {
  $templateCache.put('template.html', '<div>something</div>')
})

See the ng-directive-testing for a complete example.

For more information on Karma see the homepage.