Add option to export a single template #407
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With this change it's possible to export one template instead of the whole array of them, by running export like this: $ npm run export --template=TEMPLATE_NAME
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The export script is very memory-hungry because it creates as many instances of a Chromium browser as there are templates. My laptop doesn't have too much RAM and it often freezes when I run export on this project.
There's room for optimizing that by launching a single instance of Chromium and opening a number of tabs/pages. But in the meantime, here's a pretty simple workaround that allows a single template export by setting an option in the terminal:
npm run export --template=TEMPLATE_NAMEAnother benefit of this feature is that you can export only the template you're working on, instead of exporting all and then having to
git addthe pdf you're interested in,checkoutthe rest of the pdf dir, etc.