Make use of a template engine and use partials for components

mischah commented 7 years ago

Tell us about the issue you are experiencing

Am I right that I have to duplicate markup when using the same component in different other components?

What behaviour would you expect?

The possibility to use something like partials to include existing components into other ones. This would increase maintainability of a pattern Library generated with Astrum.

Other tools to generate and maintain pattern libraries are using template engines to accomplish this:

Node pattern lab uses mustache. See: http://patternlab.io/docs/pattern-including.html
Fractal uses Handlebars. See: http://fractal.build/guide/components/sub-components

Your environment

Platform: Mac OS OS Version: 10.11.6 Node Version: 6.9.5 NPM Version: 4.4.1 Astrum Version: 1.9.3

RyanHavoc commented 7 years ago

@mischah We've been working on this in for release\2.0.0 I thought we had an open issue for it but apparently we don't so I've made this the issue.

kineodavid commented 6 years ago

we use twig templates if we could add support of this that would be great.

Andy-set-studio commented 6 years ago

I love Twig, @kineodavid. I also think Nunjucks could be worth considering. It's very similar to Twig in terms of syntax. The documentation is very good too 🙂

It's worth noting that we should consider component level state in a data.json file to allow users to do stuff like looping within their components. That would create a nice markup and sample relationship by proxy too.

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