0.9.0: Adding helpers from `verbfile.js`?

That’s strange. I tried in a couple of ways that i know that it should work. Also checked how it’s done on other libs and generators.

The #91 “problem” push me to try some things and start playing with toc options and verb in general. In a result I realize couple of things:

• there’s no toc template helper - e.g. using {%= toc() %}
• you can’t pass options for toc through <!-- toc -->
  • i seen somewhere thing like <!-- toc('*.md', opts) -->
  • so i tried toc('README.md', {filter: fn}), but not works - the html comment is the same
• can’t overwrite toc options? - the easiest way to try that was to add toc: {footer: 'foo'} to pkg
• then i tried to add to verbfile (exposing function) some sync helper manually
  • tried using it in verbfile {%= foo('bar') %} and failed with foo is not defined
  • tried verb.helper('foo', require('helper-date')) - again fails with foo is not defined
  • tried to create task, add above to it and execute it - not works.
  • tried using verb.extendWith and put some tasks/helpers in it - not works.

So, couple of problems

• there’s a need to expose helper-toc to template, b/c currently it only can be from <!-- -->
• there’s no way to add filter (in general any) options to toc, neither through config and template
• there’s some problem adding helpers

edit: Tried everything that I can think for. edit2: One of the tried ways:

'use strict'

module.exports = function generator(verb) {
  verb.extendWith(function (app) {
    // console.log('app', app)
    app.task('foobar', function (cb) {
      console.log('actual')
      app.helper('foo', function () {
        console.log('helper')
        return 123
      })
      cb()
    })
    app.build('foobar', function (err, res) {
      console.log('build', err, res)
    })
  })
}

Fails with foo is not defined

[charlike@voltaire async-simple-iterator]$ verb
[20:00:54] using verbfile ~/dev/__play/async-simple-iterator/verbfile.js
[20:00:54] starting default generator
[20:00:54] starting default:foobar task
actual
[20:00:54] finished default:foobar task 2ms
[20:00:54] finished default generator 14ms
build undefined undefined
[20:00:54] starting readme generator
[20:00:54] starting readme:readme task
[20:00:54] starting readme generator
[20:00:55] finished readme generator 50ms
ReferenceError: foo is not defined
    at eval (engine.templateSources[1]:16:11)
    at /home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/engine-cache/index.js:201:17
    at Object.wrappedRender [as render] (/home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/engine-cache/index.js:256:7)
    at /home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/templates/lib/plugins/render.js:291:16
    at /home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/templates/lib/plugins/routes.js:133:7
    at /home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/en-route/lib/index.js:576:15
    at next (/home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/en-route/lib/index.js:161:14)
    at /home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/en-route/lib/index.js:183:18
    at Function.matchLayer (/home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/en-route/lib/index.js:264:3)
    at next (/home/charlike/.nvm/versions/node/v5.8.0/lib/node_modules/verb/node_modules/en-route/lib/index.js:164:10)
ENV: <Generator default [string] /home/charlike/dev/__play/async-simple-iterator/verbfile.js>

The another again fails with above output. It was simply:

'use strict'

module.exports = function generator(verb) {
  verb.helper('foo', require('helper-date'))
}

[jonschlinkert]

lol thanks!

[tunnckoCore]

@jonschlinkert I’m damn awesome 😄 The comment was collapsed. https://github.com/node-base/base-debug/pull/3#discussion_r54457216