add postprocess

ts/index.ts

@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ import './smarthbs.helpers'
 export * from './smarthbs.partials'
 export * from './smarthbs.template'
 export * from './smarthbs.variables'
+export * from './smarthbs.postprocess'

ts/smarthbs.helpers.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 import * as plugins from './smarthbs.plugins'
 
+/**
+ * Helper:
+ * Allows you to analyze a context
+ */
 plugins.handlebars.registerHelper('__analyze', (analyzeContext) => {
   if (typeof analyzeContext === 'string') {
     if (plugins.handlebars.partials[analyzeContext]) {
@@ -12,6 +16,10 @@ plugins.handlebars.registerHelper('__analyze', (analyzeContext) => {
   }
 })
 
+/**
+ * Helper:
+ * logs all registered partials to console
+ */
 plugins.handlebars.registerHelper('__allPartialsLog', (analyzeContext) => {
   console.log(plugins.handlebars.partials)
   return 'analyzed'

ts/smarthbs.postprocess.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import * as plugins from './smarthbs.plugins'
+
+
+let safeSyntaxBeginRegex = /{-{/g
+let safeSyntaxEndRegex = /}-}/g
+
+/**
+ * allows you to keep handlebars in place across multiple iterations
+ * helpful when handlebars syntax is used by more than one tool in a build chain
+ */
+export let postprocess = async (stringArg: string): Promise<string> => {
+  let processedString = stringArg
+  processedString = processedString.replace(safeSyntaxBeginRegex, '{{')
+  processedString = processedString.replace(safeSyntaxEndRegex, '}}')
+  return processedString
+}