Nunjucks extends, file not found

[metalsmith]

Nunjucks extends, file not found

[rawberg]

turns out the path to the template being extended is relative to the the root of the project.

{% extends "layouts/master.html" %}   // works
{% extends "master.html %} // does not work

"metalsmith-layouts" {
    "engine": "nunjucks"
}

[micahgodbolt]

Ah! Finally found it. The directory has to be set like this:

var nunjucks = require('nunjucks');
nunjucks.configure('./templates', {watch: false})

[ismay]

turns out the path to the template being extended is relative to the the root of the project.

Yeah the implementations differ from engine to engine.

Consolidate.js suggets this loader option, not sure how that would work in the context of metalsmith?

Basically any option that's passed to metalsmith-layouts that it doesn't recognise is passed on to consolidate. So you can use that, and you can also configure a global instance of nunjucks (var nunjucks = require('nunjucks'); and that seems to be picked up by consolidate as well (even though the requires option is the official way of configuring an engine).

[micahgodbolt]

Does anyone have an explanation of how to resolve this issue? I'm having the same problem with extends and haven't had any luck with any of the suggestions mentioned here.