Nesting Layouts

[rambleraptor]

Forgive me if this is possible already.

It seems like it would be nice to have the ability to nest layouts. For example, in a blog, I may want a post layout that would have title and Disqus comments. That post layout would inherit from my main layout so the site retains its natural look.

[edrex]

See sintaxi/terraform#14

[edrex]

Actually I should answer your question directly @astephen2.

If you use Jade for layouts, you can take advantage of the extends and block keywords. This provides an extremely flexible nested layouts system.

• http://www.devthought.com/code/use-jade-blocks-not-layouts/
• http://www.learnjade.com/tour/block-append-and-prepend/

If you want to stick with just Harp and EJS, you can often achieve the same ends that you would through nested layouts by factoring out shared code in your layouts into partials.

[mrchief]

But then you get bitten by this: #371

[mrchief]

Hey, unfortunately you basically have to choose between Jade’s blocks / extends system or Harp’s implicity _layout / partial system.

Just learnt about this