Templates¶

You’ll want to write your site’s Jinja templates first: write them as usual. By default, staticjinjaplus searches for Jinja templates in the templates directory where it is invoked. You can change that by using TEMPLATES_DIR.

Remember staticjinjaplus still stick with staticjinja’s idiom: one Jinja template equal one rendered file, nothing more, nothing less.

staticjinjaplus offers the following additional Jinja facilities.

Globals¶

config¶

Type: Dict[str, Any]

Configuration values loaded from config.py (defaults are guaranteed to be provided for built-in values). Only uppercase variables are loaded by staticjinjaplus.

Examples:

{{ config.BASE_URL }}         {# http://localhost:8080/ (by default) #}
{{ config.MY_CUSTOM_CONFIG }} {# Whatever you defined in your config.py (uppercase variables only) #}

absurl¶

Type: Callable

Signature: absurl(resource: str) -> str

Build an absolute URL relative to a file located in the OUTPUT_DIR directory. The resource path is prefixed by BASE_URL. USE_HTML_EXTENSION configuration value does not alter this function’s behavior in any way: you must provide the right resource path by yourself.

Examples:

{# absurl() doesn't care whether an extension is given or not #}
{{ absurl('/about.html') }} {# http://localhost:8080/about.html #}
{{ absurl('/about') }}      {# http://localhost:8080/about #}
{{ absurl('about') }}       {# http://localhost:8080/about #}

{# absurl() doesn't care about whether a static file is targeted or not #}
{{ absurl('/images/logo.png') }} {# http://localhost:8080/images/logo.png #}
{{ absurl('images/logo.png') }}  {# http://localhost:8080/images/logo.png #}

embed¶

Type: Callable

Signature: embed(filename: str) -> markupsafe.Markup

Return the file content of the given file, marked as safe to be rendered by Jinja. filename is relative to the {ASSETS_DIR} directory. Useful to e.g embed SVG icons directly in the generated HTML.

Examples:

{{ embed('icons/github.svg') }} {# <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" ... </svg> #}

collected¶

Type: List[Dict[str, Any]]

List of all valid template files (as seen by staticjinja) found in the TEMPLATES_DIR directory. Dictionaries contained in this list owns the following keys and values.

source (str)

The template filename.

Example: wow/about.html

type (str)

The type (file extension) of the template.

Example: html

url (str)

The rendered template URL.

Setting USE_HTML_EXTENSION configuration value to False will remove the .html suffix, including for Markdown templates output.

Example: /wow/about.html

meta (Dict[str, str])

If type equals md: metadata parsed from the source Markdown file. Multiline values have been concatenated using \n without extra spaces.

Example: {'my-metadata': 'any value'}

Examples:

{{ collected }}
{#
    [
      {'source': 'index.html', 'type': 'html', url': '/'},
      {'source': 'site/about.html', 'type': 'html', 'url': '/site/about.html'},
      {'source': 'categories/index.html', 'type': 'html', 'url': '/categories/'},
      {'source': 'woah.md', 'type': 'md', 'url': '/woah.html', 'meta': { ... }},
      {'source': 'index.md', 'type': 'md', 'url': '/', 'meta': { ... }},
      {'source': 'blog/an-article.md', 'type': 'md', 'url': '/blog/an-article.html', 'meta': { ... }},
      {'source': 'blog/index.md', 'type': 'md', 'url': '/blog/', 'meta': { ... }}
    ]
#}

Filters¶

tojsonm¶

Signature: <data: Dict>|tojsonm -> markupsafe.Markup

Serialize the given dictionary to a JSON string. Automatically takes into account MINIFY_JSON to minify (or not) the resulting output. Useful for e.g serializing Schema.org’s JSON-LD-formatted data.

Examples:

{{ dict(yes=True)|tojsonm }} {# With config['MINIFY_JSON'] == False:
                                 {
                                     "yes": true
                                 }
                             #}

{{ dict(yes=True)|tojsonm }} {# With config['MINIFY_JSON'] == True:
                                 {"yes":true}
                             #}

dictmerge¶

Signature: <left: Dict>\|dictmerge(right: Dict) -> Dict

Merge two dictionaries. Does not modify existing ones, a new one will be created. Does not merge deeply.

Examples:

{{ dict(yes=True)|dictmerge(dict(no=False)) }} {# {"yes": True, "no": False} #}

Markdown¶

staticjinjaplus has generic support for working with Markdown-formatted files. Write your Markdown files (.md) as usual in the TEMPLATES_DIR directory: they will be rendered to HTML using the appropriate template partial, and saved using the source root pathname to the OUTPUT_DIR directory; i.e. {TEMPLATES_DIR}/blog/awesome.md will be rendered to {OUTPUT_DIR}/blog/awesome.html.

staticjinjaplus do read metadata fields of Markdown files. Supported syntax is documented here. The only reserved metadata field is partial, which tells staticjinjaplus which template partial (relative to the TEMPLATES_DIR directory) to use when rendering the Markdown file. See example below.

It fallbacks to MARKDOWN_DEFAULT_PARTIAL if the field was not found. An error will be logged if staticjinjaplus can’t determine which template partial to use, and rendering of the Markdown file will be canceled.

This template partial will be given a Markdown-specific variable named markdown containing a dictionary which keys and values are detailed below.

markdown.converted (markupsafe.Markup)

The resulting HTML, marked as safe to be rendered by Jinja. Metadata are of course not included in this output.

Example: <p>My awesome paragraph</p>

markdown.source (str)

The Markdown template filename.

Example: blog/my-article.md

markdown.url (str)

The rendered Markdown template URL.

Setting USE_HTML_EXTENSION configuration value to False will remove the .html suffix.

Example: /blog/my-article.html

markdown.meta (Dict[str, str])

Metadata parsed from the source Markdown file. Multiline values have been concatenated using \n without extra spaces.

Example: {'my-metadata': 'any value'}

Internal URLs must be written using the rendered version of the templates/assets/static files, i.e. URLs relative to what will be rendered in the OUTPUT_DIR directory. staticjinjaplus will not rewrite any URLs in any manner: you must provide the right ones by yourself. See example below.

See also the collected Jinja global which contain - among others - all Markdown files found in the TEMPLATES_DIR directory (as seen by staticjinja) along their parsed metadata, and more.

Example Markdown file:

partial: blog/_post.html

My awesome blog post. It has internal [links](/blog/my-article.html), and one image:

![](/images/attachment.png)

This image may come from the `STATIC_DIR` directory.