Eleventy v3.0 Template Syntax plugin: Pug

[zachleat]

Discussion here: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/3074

This one is for @Aankhen

[zachleat]

(and @Zearin)

[Zearin]

I'd like to test @11ty/eleventy@canary in a project with Pug. Is there a pre-release version of the Pug plugin available?

[Zearin]

I’m trying to get a quick-and-dirty Pug plugin working for my project in Eleventy@3.0.0-alpha.4.

I cannot get my plugin to see the contents of my _data directory. eleventyConfig.addGlobalData() does not seem to be doing it.

@zachleat:

• How can I access the contents of my _data dir from a plugin?

Other Eleventy + Pug users:

• Anyone else trying Pug on Eleventy v3?
• What works?
• What doesn’t?

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Additional Context

I asked @zachleat on Mastodon about using Eleventy v2’s class Pug extends TemplateEngine as the basis for a plugin in Eleventy v3, but he told me that wasn’t possible because it’s incompatible with the Plugin API.

I don’t know Eleventy’s internals enough to figure out how to recreate its operation piece-by-piece in a plugin.

Since a common feature of plugins is to add template engines to Eleventy v3, please consider this post an additional request for more details on what the plugin API can—and importantly, cannot—do.

I want to be clear: I’m all for Eleventy v3 becoming more lightweight! (The weight loss with the v2 launch was incredible!) And Pug is indeed a hefty dependency.

But it would be really unfortunate if the v3 plugin’s capabilities are incapable of, or inferior to, the capabilities of a subclass of TemplateEngine.

Is it possible to match (or perhaps exceed) the DX for Pug in the plugin for Eleventy v3?

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EDIT: Trimmed some over-dramatic nonsense at the end of Additional Context. (Sorry about that!)

[Zearin]

(COPIED FROM #3124)

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@uncenter @Denperidge @Aankhen:

Zach gave me the go-ahead to start on an officially supported Eleventy v3 plugin for Pug. Here it is:

https://github.com/Zearin/eleventy-plugin-pug

P.S. – I code weird. I hate semicolons. You have been warned. P.P.S. – I’m a much better editor than a writer—or whatever the equivalent is for coding. Wanna collaborate? :D P.P.P.S. – Ah, you’ll figure it out :P

[uncenter]

P.S. – I code weird. I hate semicolons. You have been warned.

Zach might make you use his Prettier configuration at some point! 😆

[Zearin]

Zach might make you use his Prettier configuration at some point! 😆

That’s okay, but I’m calling dibs until the plugin’s out of beta ;-)

[Aankhen]

@Zearin, I just migrated to Canary thanks to your plugin. (At least, everything looks okay so far.) Great job, and thank you.

[grimsteel]

I found a way to use subclasses of TemplateEngine in plugins, by "poisoning" the eleventy template engine cache in the eleventy.extensionmap event

import type { UserConfig } from "@11ty/eleventy";
import TemplateEngine from "@11ty/eleventy/src/Engines/TemplateEngine.js";

// can't be named CustomEngine
class MyCustomEngine extends TemplateEngine {
  async compile(src: string, inputPath: string) {
    // this is like the compile function in normal custom engines but you get access to so much more (as it's a TemplateEngine subclass)
    return async (data: Record<string, any>) => {
      return "content";
    }
  }
}

export default (eleventyConfig: UserConfig) => {
  eleventyConfig.addTemplateFormats("custom");

  eleventyConfig.addExtension("custom", {});

  eleventyConfig.on("eleventy.extensionmap", extensionMap => {
    const extensionManager = extensionMap.engineManager;
    extensionManager.importCache["custom"] = Promise.resolve(BlocksEngine);
  });
};

using Eleventy v2’s class Pug extends TemplateEngine as the basis for a plugin in Eleventy v3

@Zearin it seems like you might find this useful

[noelforte]

@grimsteel, woah, that's a cool workaround! Wanted to chime in that depending on how #3310 resolves itself, hacking on top of eleventy.extensionMap may not be necessary, especially if friction between the Plugin API and the Template Engine API can be reduced in some capacity.

[zachleat]

Ah, can y’all be super clear about what’s missing here that requires the TemplateEngine subclass? addExtension creates a new CustomEngine instance which extends does already extend from TemplateEngine so you should have most of that power already available.

[grimsteel]

@zachleat, what's missing is getting access to that CustomEngine/TemplateEngine instance in the compile function.

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/blob/922d9418ce5ab166e9bc719eb2b24019d45ca3fc/src/Engines/Custom.js#L188-L194

As far as I can tell, there's no way to access that instance (this) from either what's bound to the this for compile or the arguments passed to it.

In my case, I wanted to make a custom engine that produces sends its own output through Nunjucks, so I needed access to the Nunjucks engine through engineManager. (Basically, what Eleventy does with Markdown/Liquid)

There's a lot of information accessible with this.config, but it's not everything. (For instance, this.config.extensionMap only includes custom engines)

[zachleat]

@Zearin can you make a PR to add your pug to this official repository? https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-template-languages

This is where I’d like to have these extended template languages live moving forward.

If you’re too busy I can do this work too I just want to make sure you get the credit.

I created the ejs variant that hopefully gives you a good starting point for the conventions here but I did re-use a lot of the conventions from your pug repo here too (including moving the tests to use Node test runner!)

[zachleat]

Started the pug port here: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-template-languages/pull/13

[zachleat]

For the remaining tests, there isn’t much more left to port over—just the test cases from this file: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/blob/v2.x/test/TemplateRenderPugTest.js

[zachleat]

The official pug plugin v1.0.0-alpha.1 is now available https://www.npmjs.com/package/@11ty/eleventy-plugin-pug

Thank you @Zearin for the contribution!!

[zachleat]

The official pug plugin v1.0.0 is now available https://www.npmjs.com/package/@11ty/eleventy-plugin-pug

Even more thanks to @Zearin for the contribution!!

[Aankhen]

All hail our saviour Zearin!