Customizable message template about express-messages HOT 3 CLOSED

Sorry for the late reply @dearwish, I obviously hadn't set up my GitHub notifications correctly!

Anyway, I think this is a little out of the remit of express-messages. Personally, when I need some custom templating I bypass it altogether and set up a bit of custom middleware like so:

app.use(function (req, res, next) {
  var flash = req.flash()
  res.locals.messages = Object.keys(flash).reduce(function (messages, type) {
    flash[type].forEach(function (message) {
      messages.push({type: type, message: message})
    })
    return messages
  }, [])
  next()
})

Now I can access messages in my jade templates:

ul.messages
  each message in messages
    li(class="#{message.type}")= message.message

Or for EJS:

<ul class="messages">
  <% messages.forEach(function (message) { %>
    <li class="<%= message.type %>"><%= message.type %></li>
  <% }) %>
</ul>

I hope this helps. Of course, if you and others do believe that custom templating should be added to express-messages then that's something I'll look into.

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Landed in 1225b2d, with thanks to @agraboso.

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Thank you for addressing my question @artcommacode, but I really liked the concept of express-messages, because the template outcome is very short and clean <%- messages() %>.

In my case I just customized your module for my local utility to fit the message markup to Zurb Foundation alert boxes.

Of course, this is not the ultimate way to handle such tasks, but my project timeline was very tight, thus I didn't have a time for healthy contribution for this functionality. Looking forward, I think it will be a good thing to provide the markup templating functionality, because it differs for each framework.

I will also think about this and will try to implement something more generic when I will have some more time.

Thanks again.

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