Custom Nunjucks environment w/ autoescape

[pdehaan]

Per 11ty/eleventy#495 (comment),

Looks like instead of possibly using the | safe filter on 90% of the output, we might be able to fiddle with autoescape (but requires a custom Nunjucks environment):

  let nunjucksEnvironment = new Nunjucks.Environment(
    new Nunjucks.FileSystemLoader(["src/site/_templates"]), // we need to pass in our includes dir here
    { 
      lstripBlocks: true,
      trimBlocks: true,
      autoescape: false
     });

  nunjucksEnvironment.addGlobal(name, nunjucksGlobals[name]);

  eleventyConfig.setLibrary("njk", nunjucksEnvironment);

See:

• https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/api.html#opts-autoescape
• https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/templating.html#autoescaping
• https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/templating.html#safe
• https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/templating.html#escape-aliased-as-e

[pdehaan]

Done. See https://github.com/pdehaan/11ty-nunjucks-config

Also filed 11ty/eleventy#895 since this was trickier than expected.

[einomi]

Done. See https://github.com/pdehaan/11ty-nunjucks-config

Also filed 11ty/eleventy#895 since this was trickier than expected.

@pdehaan when I add a config as in https://github.com/pdehaan/11ty-nunjucks-config, 11ty stops compiling .njk files on change

[pdehaan]

@einomi are you saying the custom nunchucks environment works, but the eleventy —watch behavior breaks?

[einomi]

@pdehaan yeah, it looks like it doesn't recompile the .njk files when I edit them. However, browsersync reloads the page but the content is not updated on it.

[pdehaan]

@einomi Interesting, if that's still happening in latest 0.12.1 (i think my sample repo above had an older version of Eleventy), I'd file a bug at https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues.

In the meantime, you could see if a custom watch target for your nunjucks template folder works: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/watch-serve/#add-your-own-watch-targets

I generally don't use --watch and just rebuild manually, so I'm not very knowledgeable on all things related to watching and rebuilding.