i'm using nunjucks (gulp) as templating language and i want to build a dynamic page template.
This is my Json:
"pages": [
{
uname: "Welcome",
title: "Page 1 Headline"
},
{
uname: "About",
title: "Page 2 Headline"
}
]
Currently i have a static page (html) template for each page:
{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% set active_page = "Welcome" %} //<- This needs to be dynamicly
{% block content %}
<h1>{{ page[0].title }}</h1> //<- This needs to be dynamicly
My first thought was to read the url parameters but i couldn't solve it in this way.
Any suggestions?
The solution was simple!
Need to do this:
index.njk
<!-- set title !!! -->
{% set title = 'home page' %} <!-- set title !!! -->
{% extends "layout.njk" %}
{% block header %} {% include "parts/header.njk" %} {% endblock %}
{% block main %}
<main class="main">
<!-- content -->
</main>
{% endblock %}
{% block footer %} {% include "parts/footer.njk" %} {% endblock %}
page1.njk
<!-- set title !!! -->
{% set title = 'page1' %}
{% extends "layout.njk" %}
{% block header %} {% include "parts/header.njk" %} {% endblock %}
{% block main %}
<main class="main">
<!-- content -->
</main>
{% endblock %}
{% block footer %} {% include "parts/footer.njk" %} {% endblock %}
layout.njk
<!-- layout.njk -->
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- here is the compiled title -->
<title>{{ title }}</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css">
</head>
<body class="page">
{% block header %}{% endblock %}
{% block main %}{% endblock %}
{% block footer %}{% endblock %}
</body>
</html>
If you are hoping to pass the data from data.json file
- first you need to use someway to specify the page name in the data file itself.
- Then you have to set the page name as a variable in the nunjucks page.
- Now you can use this variable name to get the data relevant to the
page you are working in.
data.json
{
"pages": {
"welcome": {
"uname": "Welcome",
"title": "Page 1 Headline"
},
"about": {
"uname": "About",
"title": "Page 2 Headline"
},
}
}
index.njk
{% set pageName = 'welcome' %}
{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% set active_page = "Welcome" %}
{% block content %}
<h1>{{ page[pageName].title }}</h1>
{% macro inc(file, folder) %}
{% if folder %}
{% set folderPATH = folder %}
{% else %}
{% set folderPATH = file %}
{% endif %}
{% set path = folderPATH + "/" + file + ".njk" %}
{% include path %}
{% endmacro %}
{{ inc("menu") }} // {% include "menu/menu.njk" %}
{{ inc("content") }} // {% include "content/content.njk" %}