Page Crafter

A tool for simply templating content pages using handlebars templating syntax with partials support.

Usage

pagecraft <dir> [options]

All files with a .handlebars extension will be run through the handlebars templating engine.

Any handlebars files with a leading _ underscore in the name will be registered as partials and not available in the final output.

All other files will be copied as-is to the output directory.

Options

option	Description
-h,--help	help message
-o,--out	Specify 'out' directory; default 'dist'
-p,--params	Specify a YAML parameter file to be used as template context
-c,--clean	Remove the 'out' directory before build
-v,--version	Print version information

Example

Given the following input directory structure:

website/
├── css/
│   ├── bootstrap.min.css
│   └── bootstrap-theme.min.css
├── js/
│   └── bootstrap.min.js
├── shared-partials/
│   ├── _navbar.html.handlebars
│   └── _footer.html.handlebars
├── index.html.handlebars
└── about-us.html.handlebars

A YAML parameter file named web-params.yml at the same level as website/ with the following contents:

---
sales_phone: [phone]
sales_email: [e-mail]

And running the following command:

pagecraft website/ -o dist/ -p web-params.yml

The following will occur:

1. All files in css/ and js/ will be copied as-is to a new dist/ folder
2. Partials named shared-partials/_navbar.html and shared-partials/_footer.html will be registered and available to be used in the index.html.handlebars and about-us.html.handlebars files as {{> shared-partials/_navbar.html }}. Notice that they are namespaced by their relative folder.
3. The sales_phone and sales_email contents of web-params.yml will be available as context for each template.
4. An index.html and about-us.html will be created in the dist/ folder after running through the handlebars templater with all available partials and context parameters.

The output will be:

dist/
├── css/
│   ├── bootstrap.min.css
│   └── bootstrap-theme.min.css
├── js/
│   └── bootstrap.min.js
├── shared-partials/
├── index.html
└── about-us.html