Merge pull request #356 from GitbookIO/feature/includes

Support importing code snippets

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/parse/code_include.js b/lib/parse/code_include.js
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+++ b/lib/parse/code_include.js
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+var fs = require('fs');
+var path = require('path');
+
+module.exports = function(code, folder) {
+    folder = folder || '';
+
+    return code.replace(/{{([\s\S]+?)}}/g, function(match, filename) {
+        // Normalize filename
+        var fname = path.join(folder, filename.trim());
+
+        // Try including snippet from FS
+        try {
+            // Trim trailing newlines/space of imported snippets
+            return fs.readFileSync(fname, 'utf8').trimRight();
+        } catch(err) {}
+
+        // If fails leave content as is
+        return match;
+    });
+};