njk-cli/njk

Render nunjucks templates with markdown and front-matter

njk's Issues

thank you for service

sad to hear njk is no longer receiving lts. i enjoyed it while it lasted. may i ask what alternatives you are using?

globby error

I really wish this package would work like it claims to.

Here's the command line I'm trying to run

njk ./content -t ./templates -o _site/

I have .md files in ./content, .njk templates in ./templates and expecting everything to bundle up nicely in _site/. Instead, globby throws an error.

throw new TypeError('Patterns must be a string or an array of strings');

It looks like your package uses globby.sync twice, the first one seems to have the ['./content'] argument I'm passing but the second time around assigning -t ./templates just sends in undefined. I can see my process.argv is passing in all the arguments that I'm sending. Looks like your commander losing them.

Improvements

• Unit tests
• Integration tests

Add ability to watch files to preview changes

Add abilty to minify files when specified

Output directory

When using njk src/html/*.html --out dist files are being created in dist/src/html instead of directly to dist. So, for example src/html/index.html gets output to dist/src/html/index.html.

Is it possible to get the output to be dist/index.html instead of including the extra source folders? Thanks for the great CLI tool!

Support quoting file globs

When using either of the following npm scripts, nothing gets built:

"njk 'src/html/*.html'"
"njk \"src/html/*.html\""

A number of CLI tools (ex. https://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/command-line-interface) recommend double quoting globs (which are escaped in the second example above) to ensure proper Windows support.

Support for config file to customize nunjucks rendering

Watch mode failed to render

I'm pretty frequently getting messages like the following and an empty file when running in watch mode on Ubuntu 18.10:

ℹ Changed template src/html/index.html
⚠ Failed to render src/html/index.html, null output
✔ Wrote index.html

If I save the file again, it seems to build correctly. I also have the verbose flag enabled, but those are the only messages I'm seeing.

I think it might be related to babel/babel#4332 and postcss/postcss-cli#215, which were both fixed by adding awaitWriteFinish options to chokidar.watch.

Consider renaming CLI options to match Nunjucks

One small point of confusion I had while migrating over from a different Nunjucks tool was the --template CLI option. After looking through the source, I realized that it seems to work the same as searchPaths (https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/api.html#filesystemloader).

You might consider renaming that to match or adding a note to help avoid similar confusion in the future.