stencil-paper is a plugin for stencil-cli. Its duty is to load templates and translations, and call out to paper-handlebars to render pages.

Load Paper into your app:

const Paper = require('@bigcommerce/stencil-paper');

Instatiate paper passing siteSettings, themeSettings, assembler, and an optional logger (overriding the default logger):

const paper = new Paper(siteSettings, themeSettings, assembler, logger);

The assembler is the interface that Paper uses to load the templates and translations. This way we can use paper to load the templates from the file system or any other source. It's just an object that implements two methods: getTemplates() & getTranslations():

const assembler = {
    getTemplates: (path, processor) => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            // implement me
            resolve(processor(templates));
        });
    },
    getTranslations: () => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            // implement me
            resolve(translations);
        });
    }
};

Now we can load the theme for the page we want to render:

paper.loadTheme(path, 'en').then(() => {
    paper.render(path, context).then(html => {
        reply(html);
    });
});

See the stencil API reference for documentation on the available helpers.

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