Generation message plugin for DocPad

Immediately send back a custom response while generation has not yet been performed.

Install

docpad install generationmessage

Configure

plugins:
  generationmessage:
    generationMessageFile: '503-generation.html'   # The path to the generation file.

Creating a generation message file

You can create a generation message file named "503-generation.html" under your documents or your files folder.

You can create a multi-extension document, such as "503-generation.html.jade", but:

• You will need to specify its path in the configuration.
• You can't use any template helpers as they're not guaranteed to be available at the time the file will be rendered.

Notes

• I created this plugin so that while the website is generating, Heroku's router won't time out and we can give a meaningful response to visitors.
• Most of the time it will still take time before the website will respond with the generation message due to DocPad's synchronous nature. To solve this, I imagine we would need to put several setImmediate calls to DocPad or TaskGroup, but that is outside the scope of this plugin.