grunt-synthesize

A grunt plugin to synthesize templates, variables and content to a static file.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

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-synthesize --save-dev

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

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-synthesize');

The "synthesize" task

Overview

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

grunt.initConfig({
  synthesize: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.engine

Type: String Default value: ''

The template engine to use when synthesizing content and variables to the resulting file. This should be a supported engine of consolidate and must be installed separately.

When no engine is defined, a simple replacement will be used. It will replace all occurrences of a placeholder {variable} with the variables value from the front matter.

As this is a simple substitution, nested attributes (like site) can't be accessed.

options.defaultTemplate

Type: String Default value: ''

The path to the default template file to use when the content file does not have a template defined as template in the font matter.

options.concurrency

Type: String Default value: The number of available CPUs

The number of files processed in parallel.

options.mode

Type: Boolean or Number Default value: false

Whether to copy or set the existing file permissions. Set to true to copy the existing file permissions. Or set to the mode, i.e.: 0644, that copied files will be set to.

options.data

Type: Object Default value: null

A set of global attributes that can be accessed as site in content and templates.

Usage Examples

Default Options

In this example, the default options are used to do something with whatever. So if the testing file has the content Testing and the 123 file had the content 1 2 3, the generated result would be Testing, 1 2 3.

grunt.initConfig({
  synthesize: {
    options: {},
    files: {
      'dest/default_options': ['src/testing', 'src/123'],
    },
  },
});

Custom Options

In this example, custom options are used to do something else with whatever else. So if the testing file has the content Testing and the 123 file had the content 1 2 3, the generated result in this case would be Testing: 1 2 3 !!!

grunt.initConfig({
  synthesize: {
    options: {
      separator: ': ',
      punctuation: ' !!!',
    },
    files: {
      'dest/default_options': ['src/testing', 'src/123'],
    },
  },
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 0.1.x No official release yet.