Yumdocs is a template engine for Office documents, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel, in JavaScript environments. It merges documents with data, executing statements and expressions found in tags.

Yumdocs is fully documented at https://www.yumdocs.com.

This project is MIT Licensed like its 3rd party components:

• @xmldom/xmldom
• file-saver
• jexl
• jszip

Copyright (c) 2022 - Jacques L. Chereau. All rights reserved.

Check https://www.yumdocs.com for browser instructions. The following targets nodeJS.

Download and install nodeJS v16+ from https://nodejs.org/.

Create a project directory, make it your working directory, and run from a terminal window:

npm init -y
npm i @yumdocs/yumdocs

1. Create a Word document named input.docx, type {{field}} and save it in the project directory.

2. In the same project directory, create a file named index.mjs and copy-paste:

import {YumTemplate} from '@yumdocs/yumdocs';
const t = new YumTemplate();
await t.load('./input.docx');
await t.render({field: 'Anything you see fit'});
await t.saveAs('./output.docx');

3. Open a terminal window in this project directory and run node index.mjs.

4. output.docx has been generated and the {{field}} placeholder has been replaced with Anything you see fit.