Support content blocks?

[mlanza]

Enter your suggestions in details:

Nunjucks has a feature called blocks. It's useful when you have different sections of a certain page type. Without blocks you can inline your markdown in the yaml.

credits: |
  * <label>Designers</label>: Michael Kiesling & Wolfgang Kramer
  * <label>Illustrators</label>: Paul Mafayon & Christophe Swal

Inlining in the yaml is fine with small bits of content but is awkward when you have several sections each with substantial content. Blocks are better for this.

{% block credits %}
* <label>Designers</label>: Michael Kiesling & Wolfgang Kramer
* <label>Illustrators</label>: Paul Mafayon & Christophe Swal
{% endblock %}

The blocks feature exists in Nunjucks but it didn't seem to work for me, so I wasn't sure if Lume as a wrapper implements it. I didn't see any examples taking advantage of blocks, even in the other templating languages.

I saw it rejected in #314 but I wasn't sure if it was the feature as a whole or a user-specific issue, since it seems relatively important when it comes to structured content writing. Maybe one of the other templating languages supports the concept? With the current design, I have pages with 3-4 sections in which I have to jam much of the prose into the front matter. I was looking at it and it didn't seem right my content should live up in the yaml.

[oscarotero]

Blocks cannot be used with the Lume layouts because it's not possible to pass the blocks defined by one template to other template. For example:

---
layout: main.njk
---

{% block credits %}
* <label>Designers</label>: Michael Kiesling & Wolfgang Kramer
* <label>Illustrators</label>: Paul Mafayon & Christophe Swal
{% endblock %}

Lume cannot get the credits block and pass to main.njk (at least I wasn't able to find a way to do that). But you can use the nunjucks native layouts, that does that:

{% extends "main.njk" %}

{% block credits %}
* <label>Designers</label>: Michael Kiesling & Wolfgang Kramer
* <label>Illustrators</label>: Paul Mafayon & Christophe Swal
{% endblock %}

[mlanza]

Thank you.