feature(precompile): allow for precompilation #27
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I've added an option to allow precompilation. Simply setting this to true will create a file with the precompilation function in it. Specifying a string on the other hand considers this a lodash template which is compiled using gutil.template. This allows for things like "module.exports = <%= template %>" to create modules from templates. Alternatively some magic can be done with gulp-concat to let users create a single module from all their templates. The reason I want this function is because my data is not static but I would like to use swig. By supporting this function from swig I can precompile my templates. Use them on the server or send them to the browser with dynamically loaded data. Possible future additions could be turning options.precompile into an object with a glob. Only files matching the globs would be precompiled, the rest could be compiled to static HTML. This is however more than I need at the moment and probably more confusing than my current solution. As per the swig documentation, any function resulting from `opts.precompile = true` or `opts.precompile = "<%= template %>" should be used with `swig.run`.
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I've added an option to allow precompilation. Simply setting this to true will create a file with the precompilation function in it. Specifying a string on the other hand considers this a lodash template which is compiled using gutil.template. This allows for things like
opts.precompile = "module.exports = <%= template %>"to create modules from templates. Alternatively some magic can be done with gulp-concat to let users create a single module from all their templates.The reason I want this function is because my data is not static but I would like to use swig. By supporting this function from swig I can precompile my templates. Use them on the server or send them to the browser with dynamically loaded data.
Possible future additions could be turning options.precompile into an object with a glob. Only files matching the globs would be precompiled, the rest could be compiled to static HTML. This is however more than I need at the moment and probably more confusing than my current solution.
As per the swig documentation, any function resulting from
opts.precompile = trueoropts.precompile = "<%= template %>" should be used withswig.run`.