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Tree plugin for DocPad

DocPad plugin that when given a collection will construct a hierarchical tree of documents. Perfect for navigation menus!

Install

$ docpad install tree

Usage

The plugin exposes a template helper, tree(collection, context, includeRoot), that you can use for constructing a tree of documents from any given collection:

`tree(...)`	Type	Description
`collection`	`string`	The name of the collection used for constructing the tree. Default: `documents`
`context`	`object`	The context in which this tree is to be constructed. Will "highlight" the current document path if set. You'll typically want to set it to `@document`. Optional
`includeRoot`	`boolean`	Whether or not to include the root of the collection in the constructed tree. Default: `false`

For each document in the collection, you can set the following meta information:

title: "Fishing with my uncle" # Title of the page
menu: "Fishing tricks"         # Title that will appear in the tree (optional)
order: 0                       # Sort order
hidden: false                  # Whether or not to hide the item from the tree

A constructed tree will look something like this:

[
  {
    "title": "Some page",
    "url": "/some-page",
    "order": 0,
    "hidden": false,
    "active": false,
    "current": false,
    "children": [
      {
        "title": "A child page",
        "url": "/some-page/a-child-page",
        "order": 0,
        "hidden": false,
        "active": false,
        "current": false
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "title": "Parent of current page",
    "url": "/parent-of-current-page",
    "order": 0,
    "hidden": false,
    "active": true,
    "current": false,
    "children": [
      {
        "title": "Current page",
        "url": "/parent-of-current-page/current-page",
        "order": 0,
        "hidden": false,
        "active": true,
        "current": true
      }
    ]
  }
]

The tree can then be used to create, say, a nested navigation menu:

<% menu = (items) => %>
  <ul class="nav nav-stacked">
    <% for item in items: %>
      <li<%= " class=active" if item.active %>>
        <a href="<%= item.url %>"><%= item.title %></a>
        <%- menu item.children if item.children %>
      </li>
    <% end %>
  </ul>
<% end %>

<%= menu @tree('html', @document) %>

You could also use it to create breadcrumbs (notice inclusion of the root):

<% trail = (items) => %>
  <% for item in items: %>
    <% if item.active: %>
      <% if item.current: %>
        <li class="active"><%= item.title %></li>
      <% else: %>
        <li><a href="<%= item.url %>"><%= item.title %></a></li>
      <% end %>
      <%- trail item.children if item.children %>
    <% end %>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

<ol class="breadcrumb">
  <%= trail @tree('html', @document, true)  %>
</ol>