tojs

Description

tojs lets you convert files between plain text, javascript strings, and document.write() statements.

It's original purpose, was to read in an .html file, and output it as a series of document.write() statements. This is useful when creating bookmarklets. You can code your .html page, then run tojs on it. Now all your bookmarklet has to do is include a script tag that points to the file you created with tojs.

Since version 1.2.0, tojs was converted to a node.js project, and now supports a few different input/output formats. To see the new options, check out the Usage and Options sections below.

Usage

tojs [options] <files>

Options

-h, --help           output usage information
-v, --version        output the version number
-i, --input [type]   The type of input [plain|js|jsvar|docwrite]
-o, --output [type]  The type of input [plain|js|jsvar|docwrite]
-n, --name [name]    If output is "jsvar", this is the variable name
--oneline            Force output to be on one line only
--single-quotes      Use single-quotes instead of double-quotes for output
--no-var             var keyword will not be included in output
--no-open            document.open() will not be included in output
--no-close           document.close() will not be included in output

Examples

$ tojs one.txt two.txt three.txt
$ tojs -o "docwrite" file.html > file.html.js
$ tojs -i "docwrite" -o "plain" file.html.js > file.html
$ tojs -o "jsvar" --oneline --name "myVariable" file.txt
$ echo -e "one\ntwo\nthree" | tojs

Installation

npm install -g tojs

Links

Project Page

Github Page

Version History

v1.2.2 (Released October 3, 2013)

• fixed "main" declaration in package.json so library can be used from node apps (patch submitted by ryanramage)

v1.2.1 (Released January 2, 2012)

• adding man page

v1.2.0 (Released December 27, 2012)

• converting to a node.js project so installation instructions have changed

• command line options have changed

• now supports the following input/output types:

  • plain

  • js

  • jsvar

  • docwrite

• can now pipe data from stdin or use a list of files as input (similar to the unix cat command)

v1.1.0 (Released November 5, 2012)

• fixing formatting of help text

• adding 2 new command line options

  • -o | --no-open -- don't print the document.open() statement

  • -c | --no-close -- don't print the document.close() statement

v1.0.0 (Released November 4, 2012)

• Initial Release