Please provide a cli version

[gabsoftware]

EJS would be much nicer if you could provide a cli version.
I know there is already a ejs-cli NPM package, but it is not very configurable (very limited options).
That would be so useful for CI and automated build systems.

[mde]

This is a great idea. Would you like to take a first stab at building one? :)

[gabsoftware]

I submitted a pull request to the ejs-cli npm package to add support for ejs options. As for building a node cli from scratch, that would be a first for me, but why not? :)

[gabsoftware]

I see there's already a pull request to add a cli version: "Add a CLI app #393".
So there's no point in making another one. I will wait until this pull request is merged.

[mde]

Ah, that's right. That PR was going to require some non-trivial work to integrate, as it was ported from Jade, and referenced the older, outdated version of EJS. I'll blow the dust off it, and take a look.

[bhadresharya]

Do we have cli version now?

[sunnylqm]

82a0309#diff-c1111bd512b29e821b120b86446026b8

[mde]

Yes, it's a first stab at it. :) I have a bit more integration work to do before I put it into a release. Thanks for your patience!

[sunnylqm]

@mde Lucky for me while I need a cli right now. Thank you for your effort on this! Will you consider to publish a beta version first?
Btw, I might found a problem here #509

[mde]

It's new functionality, so there's no need to beta. I've actually dark launched it with version 3.1.2.

[1000i100]

I've just switch from ejs-cli to ejs and i have an issue with path handling :
include('../src/dummyCard.ejs', {count:i}) fail with this build command :
ejs ./demo/index.html.ejs -o generated/demo/index.html
but it work with the old build command :
ejs-cli --base-dir demo/ *.ejs --out generated/demo/

the full project : https://framagit.org/1000i100/1gallery