###Overview
Pattern-Primer-on-Node is a node.js port of Jeremy Keith's Pattern Primer, which is written in PHP.
Create little snippets of markup and save them to the "patterns folder." The pattern primer will generate a list of all the patterns in that folder. You will see the pattern rendered as HTML. You will also get the source displayed in a textarea.
###Installation
You'll need node.js installed (obviously).
npm install -g connect pattern-primer
###Simple Usage
Place all your HTML extracts into the <root>/public/patterns folder. Navigate to the root directory of Pattern-Primer-on-Node and run:
pattern-primer
You can then navigate to http://localhost:8080/ to see the output.
###Headless Operation
If you want to generate a 'standalone' version of the primer output, then you can also run the program with the tofile switch as follows:
pattern-primer --tofile
This will place a standalone html file, and a copy of the 'global.css' file located in <root>/public and will place them in <root>/docs. You should just be able to navigate to that folder and open the index.html file to see the same output.