Zetzer

Zetzer is a static HTML page generator.

Features!

• pages, templates and partials
• doT template engine
• Markdown via marked
• optional JSON headers for metadata
• grunt and broccoli plugins

The name: "Zetzer" ("setzer" in German, "zecer" in Polish) used to be a profession where a person would manually compose a page for a printing press by arranging metal fonts on a matrix. Interesting fact: the zetzer would see the page mirrored left-right while working on it so they had to master reading in this weird form. English word for it is probably typesetter.

Usage

Zetzer can be used as a library and Grunt or Broccoli plugin. Specific instructions can be found here:

• broccoli-zetzer
• grunt-zetzer

Main concepts

Zetzer has three main concepts: page, template and a partial. Each of them can declare a JSON header for any extra info about the document. Header's metadata is accessible from within the document as {{= it.field_name }}. The header is divided from content by one empty line.

One of special header fields is template which declares the template that current document will be wrapped with. A template can be declared for a page, a partial and even for another template. (Possible circular wrapping will be detected.)

Based on file's extension, it will be processed by either by doT or marked:

• *.md: marked
• *.html: doT
• *.dot.md: doT & marked

Pages

Pages are the starting points of the compilation. For each input page (either HTML or Markdown) document there will be exactly one output HTML document.

Templates

Templates wrap around the content of a page, partial or another template. We declare current unit's template by specifying template field in its header. Inside a template, invoking contents of the wrapped document is made by:

{{= it.document }}

We can access wrapped document's header by naming its fields like:

{{= it.document.title }}

Partials

Includes can be invoked by name (extension can be omitted) from any other partial, page or template:

{{= it.include("navigation") }}

We can pass extra options to the partial that will appear on the it inside the partial.

{{= it.include("navigation", { option: "value" }) }}

A partial can have a template. This means it will be wrapped in that template before putting it in the document that requested it.

We can access any partial's header fields by naming it:

{{= it.include("navigation").title }}

Configuration options

pages (broccoli-zetzer only)

Directory where input pages are located. Grunt version uses the standard files scheme instead. A tree in Broccoli.

templates

Directory where all the templates are located. A tree in Broccoli. Defaults to "." in Grunt.

partials

Directory that holds all partials. A tree in Broccoli. Defaults to "." in Grunt.

env

Global environment. Fields defined in env will be visible on every it object inside doT templates. They can be overridden by file-local headers.

meta_data_separator

Separator between a header and file contents. By default it's an empty line.

dot_template_settings

Settings for the doT template engine.

Contributing

Please make sure your changes follow the current style and all test passes. Each new feature and bug fix require new tests. To run the test suite run npm test.

For buildtool-related bugs please take a look at grunt-zetzer and broccoli-zetzer projects.

If you take a look at any source file you can notice that there's no dependencies between modules. All dependencies are injected in by the library consumers (grunt-zetzer and broccoli-zetzer). That's the place where the integration happens.

Release History

• version 2.0.1 (6th March, 2021) - update some dependencies
• version 2.0.0 (29th July, 2014) - rename to Zetzer and split grunt-specific code to grunt-zetzer

Previous versions as "grunt-stencil":

• version 1.1.0 (1st June, 2014) - apply doT to all HTML files
• version 1.0.2 (10th December, 2013) - Windows compatibility
• version 1.0.1 (24th November, 2013) - fix for new markdown version
• version 1.0.0 (7th October, 2013) - first stable release
• version 0.1.0 (4th October, 2013) - big refactor and change of specification
• version 0.0.3 (19th September, 2013) - fix dependencies in package.json
• version 0.0.2
• version 0.0.1 (16th September, 2013)