Common JSON data

[vladsargu]

Hi guys, I have an issue here, I can't actually add some global data that's common for all the templates. I've tried a solution offered on stackoverflow, but it didn't worked for me. I'm getting an error as it couldn't find the module 'src/data/global.json'.

This is my config object:

var swigConfig = {
    load_json: true,
    defaults:{
        cache: false
    },
    json_path: 'src/data/'
};

And this is my gulp task:

return  gulp.src('src/*.html').
        pipe(swig(swigConfig)).
        pipe(gulp.dest('build/'))

I would like to achieve something like this within my templates:

{{ global.someData }}

Thank you in advance

[colynb]

My bet is that you're not passing the path to global.json correctly. You can verify that by using fs.realpath to see if the path is correct. Something like console.log(fs.realpathSync('src/data/global.json')

Other than that, I recommend passing data to swig templates using another plugin I created a while ago to clean this process up. Give gulp-data a try. https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-data

[vladsargu]

Thank you so much @colynb for your answer, I'm actually new to Node and Gulp so may be i'm missing something, I've tried to use your gulp-data plugin and it works pretty well with just a small fix, by adding a second parameter to the basename function

return  gulp.src('src/*.html').
            pipe(data(function(file) {
                return require('./src/data/' + path.basename(file.path, '.html') + '.json');
            })).
            pipe(swig(swigConfig)).
            pipe(gulp.dest('build/'));

As I suppose, it should be adding a '.json' file for each '.html' file that it finds, but how can I add some additional '.json' files, independent from '.html' files (by using gulp-data I really do like the concept). Sorry if my question is kind elementary.

Thank you.