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I'm searching a way of using Nunjucks with the htmlWebpackPlugin to generate some html files on webpack compiling.
What I achieved so far
I managed to actually generate HTML from nunjucks template files through the nunjucks-html-loader but looking a bit closer to the code of said loader, the render method is called without sending vars to the templates.
So, for now with the following plugin config, I generate HTML without dynamically inserted vars
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/' + page.filename),
template: 'nunjucks-html-loader!assets/templates/' + page.name + '.njk'
})
What I tried
For a testing purpose, I tried some changes on the node_module itself (I know, I know...) and changed
html = template.render(nunjucksContext);
into
html = template.render(nunjucksContext, { globals: global.globals });
Trying to define global.globals in my webpack.config.js file but this crashes with the following error
ERROR in Error: Child compilation failed:
Module build failed: TypeError: parentFrame.push is not a function
which is beyond my comprehension.
What I want
Is to use an extendable template engine like nunjucks which allows me to structure my templates like the following
<html>
<!-- layout structure inherited from every template -->
</html>
Every page I make extends the layout and only overrides some blocks
What I try to avoid
Partials like for exemple
header file :
<html>
<!-- header layout -->
footer file
<!-- footer layout -->
</html>
Every page I make includes partials
So my question is : Is it even possible tu use a template engine supporting inheritance like nunjucks with the htmlWebpackPlugin or is it mandatory to use another one like ejs for exemple and chunking the layout into partials which I do not like?
943
Alright, so I found a workaround here with the nunjucks-isomorphic-loader which seems not super supported but still. It works for now !
Here's my webPack config
const path = require('path')
const webpack = require('webpack')
const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin')
const DEV_ENV = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'dev'
const wpConfig = {
entry: './assets/js/app.js',
output: {
path: path.resolve('./dist/js'),
filename: 'bundle.js'
},
module: {
rules: [
// Javascript
{
test: /\.js$/,
exclude: /(node_modules)/,
use: {
loader: 'babel-loader'
}
},
// Nunjucks - HTML
{
test: /\.njk$/,
use: [
{
loader: 'nunjucks-isomorphic-loader',
query: {
root: [path.resolve(__dirname, 'assets/templates')]
}
}
]
}
]
},
plugins: [
new webpack.DefinePlugin({
DEV_ENV: DEV_ENV
}),
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
myOptions: { foo: 'bar' },
filename: path.join(__dirname, '/' + page.filename),
template: 'assets/templates/index.njk'
})
]
}
module.exports = wpConfig
having the following templates
_layout.njk
{% set vars = htmlWebpackPlugin.options.myOptions %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>{{ vars.foo }}</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>
{% block header %}
<h1 class="header-logo">
<a href="#">{{ vars.foo }}</a><!-- Outputs bar -->
</h1>
{% endblock %}
</header>
{% block content %}
{% endblock %}
</body>
</html>
index.njk
{% extends "_layout.njk" %}
{% block content %}
here's the content of my `foo` var: {{ vars.foo }}
{% endblock %}
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