Within my gulp nunjucks area, I created a custom filter that generates date & time information for the week. I'm stuck in knowing how to return an associative array back into my nunjucks template and how to reference any of the array values. Below is my setup.
const manageEnvironment = function (environment) {
environment.addFilter('ServiceDate', function (njDay) {
//...lots of logic here....
//...my initial attempt in prepping a return for my data....
var domDate = nSunday[1]["mdate"];
var domMonth = nSunday[1]["mmonth"];
var domHour = nSunday[1]["mhour"];
var domMin = nSunday[1]["mmin"];
var domDay = nSunday[1]["mday"];
var domMer = nSunday[1]["mmeridiem"];
// my OP question - but am I wasting my time in defining the above variables because there is a way to simply return `nSunday[1]` back to my nunjucks template? and us it like this...
/*
{{"Sunday"|ServiceDate.mdate}}
{{"Sunday"|ServiceDate.mmonth}}
{{"Sunday"|ServiceDate.mhour}}
{{"Sunday"|ServiceDate.mmin}}
{{"Sunday"|ServiceDate.mday}}
{{"Sunday"|ServiceDate.mmeridiem}}
*/
return {
//..not sure how...
}
});
}
//now generate nunjucks...
function genNunJucks(cb) {
return src(['src/views/*.html'])
.pipe(nunjucksRender({
path: ['src/views/', 'src/views/parts'],
ext: '.html',
data: {},
inheritExtension: false,
envOptions: {
watch: true
},
manageEnv: manageEnvironment,
loaders: null
}))
.pipe(htmlbeautify({
indentSize: 2,
"eol": "\n",
"indent_level": 0,
"preserve_newlines": false
}))
.pipe(dest('pub'));
cb();
}
Thanks for any education in the process of learning how to properly return an associative array back to a nunjucks template and accessing any of its values.