Index File

[RobLoach]

While tinted-builder-rust does process all the mustache templates, is there a method in order to create an index file for all of the templates?

For example...

base16:
    extension: .html
    output: out

base24:
    extension: .html
    output: out
    supported-systems: [base24]

index:
    extension: .html
    output: out
    supported-systems: [index]

index.mustache

<ul>
  {{#schemes}}
    <li><a href="base16-{{name}}.html">{{name}}</a></li>
  {{/schemes}}
</ul>

Result

<ul>
    <li><a href="base16-dracula.html">Dracula</a></li>
    <li><a href="base16-tomorrow.html">Tomorrow</a></li>
    <!-- ... -->
</ul>

[JamyGolden]

What is your use case for this? I'm not opposed to adding this, but if it's something that is very niche then it might be easier to do this with a shell script for example.

[RobLoach]

Did a quick search, and found two cases in the org where it may be helpful...

1. tinted-sublime-text/themes.py: Be able to create the THEMES array dynamically, rather than hard-coding it.
2. Possibly tinty/schemes.txt: Use builder-rust to build out the schemes.txt so we don't have to update it manually ourselves.

For my usage, been considering having a dynamic index to list them in C for https://robloach.github.io/nuklear_base16/

A shell script could certainly do it, and likely what has been used. But would be nice to officiate it.

[JamyGolden]

Thanks for looking into it. Yeah I agree that this would be useful. I'm not 100% sure if it will be accepted into the builder spec, but I'm willing to add it to tinted-builder-rust as an extra feature if that's the case. Would you be willing to help figure out the details of the feature?

[RobLoach]

I could have a look at an implementation. You're right about it being out of the spec.