Chimplate

A JavaScript template compiler for Mailchimp and Mandrill templates.

Install

$ npm install --save chimplate

Use

let chimplate = require('chimplate');
 
let template = new chimplate();
// OR
let template = new chimplate({
  ignoreVars: ['FNAME'], // Merge vars to not parse
  ignoreFuncs: ['DATE'], // Functional merge vars not to parse
  postStrip: false // Whether or not to strip all remaining merge vars after compiling
});
 
// ...
 
template.setTemplate('...');
// OR
template.setTemplateFromFile('./my.tpl.html');
 
// ...
 
let compiled = template.compile({MERGEVAR1: 'Some value'});
// OR
template.compile({MERGEVAR1: 'Some value'});
let compiled = template.get();

FEEDBLOCKs

Althought not fully matured, chimplate has basic ability to process some *|FEEDBLOCK:<url>|* blocks. To utilize this functionality, instead of calling template.compile, you'd call template.compileRSS, which returns a Promise. An example:

let template = new chimplate({
    postStrip: false
});
template.setTemplateFromFile('/some/template/file.tpl.html');
 
template.compileRSS().catch((err) => {
    console.error(err);
}).then((output) => {
    if(output) {
        console.log(output);
    }
});