Create 4x branch about nunjucks-loader

[chrisfarms]

Thanks at0g ... I'd def be interested in taking over maintaining the module if you're not very active in the nunjucks space these days.... however what would be even better for the community is if I can get my workplace to adopt the project ... they are using nunjucks in a few projects so I'll see if I can drum up some support

[chrisfarms]

I was just trying to solve this problem (making a loader for node-side that plays nicely with html-loader). It looks like I'll be using nunjucks for some time at work so I might be interested in helping out on this project.

I took a slightly different approach by parsing the templates during the "pitch" phase so that we can collect all the required templates sources and use a custom Loader to pull them out of the require system.... it wasn't pretty... but it works.

It's a shame there's no way to fully precompile the templates AND support other loaders since I'm sure there's some tree shaking that we will miss out on.

Anyway... I just pushed a PoC here: https://github.com/chrisfarms/njk-loader

Since I don't need browser compilation I didn't even attempt to solve that, but the same technic should work.

Let me know if you think this might be a good direction for nunjucks-loader and I'll have a go polishing it up into a PR with tests/browser support.

[at0g]

@chrisfarms - sorry about the delay... there is a lot going on with life at the moment. I'll try for tests this week. Failing that, I agree with not creating another loader, so will gladly hand over the module name if you want to maintain it.

[at0g]

@chrisfarms Thanks for your input.
A custom Loader that leverages require sounds like a better approach than rewriting the runtime... so yes, I think this could be a good direction :)

Give me a week (to find some time) and I will update the sibling packages in the 3.x branch with test suites for specific scenarios (node, browser, umd, template inheritance, filters, macros etc).

[bonesoul]

how about webpack 4.x support?

[chrisfarms]

I continued to mature the version I was working on at chrisfarms/njk-loader#2 ... it should now work for browsers and webpack 4 ... hopefully I'll find some time this weekend to finish up adding tests ... but if @at0g can get some test in here I'd be happy to port it over to here rather than creating yet another loader.

[danielpza]

@chrisfarms any updates ?

[mdmoreau]

@at0g @chrisfarms Are there any updates on this? Trying to decide on a template engine and loader, so figured I'd drop a quick message here.