dharFr / static-templater

A grunt-based command line tool to render HTML and PDF from JSON and HTML templates

Static Templater

A grunt-based command line tool to render HMTL and PDF from JSON and HTML templates. Uses Underscore.js template engine, already included with Grunt.

Setup

1. Clone this repo : git clone https://github.com/dharFr/static-templater.git && cd static-templater
2. Have a look to the projects/sample folder
3. Create a new folder into the projects one
4. Create your own .json and template-ready .html files. Save them into the new folder you just created. Take care about the folder stucture. It should be the same than the one in projects/sample

static-templater/
|- projects/
   |- your-project/         # your project lives in his own folder
      |- data/              # contains one or more json files
      |- templates/         # contains one or more template folders
      |  |- firsttemplate/
      |  |- secondtemplate/
      |- out/               # generated from templates and data
         |- firsttemplate/
         |- secondtemplate/

Tasks

Generate HTML

grunt template will generate HTML files for each projects. Files are generated from json data and HTML template.

grunt template:projects/your-project/ will generate HTML files for the specified sub-folder only.

Generate PDF

grunt wkhtmltopdf will generated PDF files from generated HTML files.

grunt wkhtmltopdf:projects/your-project/ will generate PDF files for the specified sub-folder only.

Watch tasks

grunt watch watch for changes on any project an re-generate HTML and PDF files.

grunt watch:projects/your-project/ watch for changes on the specified project an re-generate HTML and PDF files.

TODOs

Add a grunt init task to create a new project.