grunt-html-template

Html builder use swig template. You can use swig template feature to generate html page.

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-html-template --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-html-template');

The "html_template" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
    html_template: {
        options: {
            locals:  {
                title: "Allenice"
            },
            beautify: {
                indent_size: 2
            }
        },
        build_html: {
            options: {
                force: false
            },
            expand: true,
            cwd: "test/demo/tpl",
            src: "**/*.tpl",
            dest: "test/demo/www"
        }
    },
});

if your template filename begin with '_', it will not be compiled.

Options

1. You can use all options of swig. By default, cache is set to false.
2. You can use options of js-beautify in beautify property.
3. You can set {force : false} in order to compile files which has changed.

Usage Examples

default options

grunt.initConfig({
    html_template: {
        dev: {
            options: {
                force: true,
                autoescape: ture,
                cache: "false",
                varControls: ['{{', '}}'],
                tagControls: ['{%', '%}'],
                cmtControls: ['{#', '#}'],
                locals:  {},
                cache: false,
                loader: swig.loaders.fs,
                beautify: {
                    indent_size: 4,
                    indent_char: " ",
                    indent_with_tabs: false,
                    preserve_newlines: true,
                    max_preserve_newlines: 10,
                    wrap_line_length: 0,
                    indent_inner_html: false,
                    brace_style: "collapse"
                }
            },
            expand: true,
            cwd: "test/demo/tpl",
            src: "**/*.tpl",
            dest: "test/demo/www"
        }
    },
});