Nunjucks: Precompile issue

[gsouf]

Following the doc here: https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/api.html#precompiling

I try to precompile a full directory with this method:

nunjucks.precompile('/dir/to/views', { env: env });

but it does not works, it just returns an empty string.

Please, note that it also happens with the cli command nunjuck-precompile.

Additionally adding a wildcard will trigger an error:

nunjucks.precompile('/dir/to/views/*', { env: env });

node_modules/nunjucks/src/precompile.js:78
    else if(pathStats.isFile()) {
                      ^
TypeError: pathStats.isFile is not a function
at Object.precompile (node_modules/nunjucks/src/precompile.js:78:23)
at Object.<anonymous> (scripts/precompile.js:3:18)
at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:447:10)
at startup (node.js:146:18)
at node.js:404:3

[ljmasague]

I have same issue, could you fix it?

[gsouf]

@ljmasague no i couldn't fix it and I decided to dont use nunjuck for a few reasons including this one

[ljmasague]

ok... thanks for the info :)

[zgreen]

In my case, I got this error when attempting to use a path that was relative to the path configured in my nunjucks environment.

This did not work:

nunjucks.configure('./path/to/templates')
const template = nunjucks.precompile('./template-name.html', { name: 'template' })

But this did:

nunjucks.configure('./path/to/templates')
const template = nunjucks.precompile(
  './path/to/templates/template-name.html',
  { name: 'template' }
)

Hope that helps.

[fdintino]

Judging by the thumbs-up emoji I'm assuming that answer resolved the issue.

[gsouf]

I thumbed up because I liked the fact he shared the fix. Didn't actually try by myself

[TomFrost]

This is still an issue. Attempting to precompile an entire directory per the documentation fails with the pathStats.isFile error, even with an absolute path.

[izznogooood]

I have the same issue on ubuntu with the cli version.
nunjucks-precompile <dir> > templates.js ressults in a file with an empty line.
While precompiling one and one works fine.

Could be the fact that I use .njk but have not tried to change yet. Even so, the documentation mentions nothing about file types.

[izznogooood]

I've hit this for the second time and this time I did some digging in the code and found a hint:
.default('include', ['\\.html$', '\\.jinja$'])

I changed my files to .jinja and voila...

Now: There's speak of the community adapting .njk in the documentation which I think is the source of the confusion. I will find some time shortly and add .njk to the precompiler.

Could this be your problem as well ?