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Jango

A CLI application to populate your templates.

Features

Create templates with Jinja-inspired Tera syntax.
Custom content field that can be populated with the command line.
Arbitrary template fields with Markdown TOML frontmatters.
Written in Rust, btw.

Installation

Prebuilt Binaries

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/DavoReds/jango/releases/download/v0.1.3/jango-installer.sh | sh

This works for both Linux & MacOS.

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -c "irm https://github.com/DavoReds/jango/releases/download/v0.1.3/jango-installer.ps1 | iex"

You can also download the prebuild binaries manually from the releases page.

Crates.io

If you have Rust installed, you can build Jango from source using the crates.io registry.

cargo install jango

Or download a prebuilt binary with cargo-binstall.

cargo binstall jango

Usage

With CLI arguments

This mode allows for a template containing any of Tera's builtins and a variable called content that corresponds to the command line argument of the same name.

The template could look something like this:

---
date: {{ now() | date(format="%F") }}
---

# This is a title

{{ content }}

And you would populate it with this command:

jango args template.md output.md -c "Hello, **world\!**"

Which would result in this file:

---
date: 2024-04-05
---

# This is a title

Hello, **world!**

If you are manipulating HTML, you can use the --escape flag if you wish to escape the input given to the command.

With a Markdown file

When dealing with more complex templates, you can use a Markdown file with a TOML frontmatter to pass any arbitrary variables beyond the file's content.

The template can look something like this:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <title>{{ title }}</title>
  </head>
  <body>
      {{ content | indent }}
  </body>
</html>

You can write a Markdown file like this:

+++
title = "This is a title"
+++

# This is a heading

This is a paragraph.

Then execute a command like this:

jango markdown template.html markdown.md output.html

Which would result in this file:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <title>This is a title</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>This is a heading</h1>
    <p>This is a paragraph.</p>
  </body>
</html>

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

You're going to need to have Rust installed. I also recommend having Bacon (to handle recompilation) and cargo-nextest (for a nicer interface when running tests) installed.

We also try to conventional commit conventions when contributing to the repo.

(Un)License

Unlicense

jango 0.1.4