front-matter
Extract meta data (front-matter) from documents.
This modules does not do any IO (file loading or reading), only extracting and
parsing front matter from strings.
This concept that was originally introduced to me through the jekyll blogging system and is pretty useful where you want to be able to easily add meta-data to content without the need for a database. YAML is extracted from the the top of a file between matching separators of "---" or "= yaml =". It will also extract YAML between a separator and "...".
Install
With npm do:
npm install front-matter
Example
So you have a file example.md:
---
title: Just hack'n
description: Nothing to see here
---
This is some text about some stuff that happened sometime ago
NOTE: As of front-matter@2.0.0 valid front matter is considered to have
the starting separator on the first line.
Then you can do this:
var fs = require('fs')
, fm = require('front-matter')
fs.readFile('./example.md', 'utf8', function(err, data){
if (err) throw err
var content = fm(data)
console.log(content)
})
And end up with an object like this:
{
attributes: {
title: 'Just hack\'n',
description: 'Nothing to see here'
},
body: 'This is some text about some stuff that happened sometime ago',
bodyBegin: 6,
frontmatter: 'title: Just hack\'n\ndescription: Nothing to see here'
}
Methods
var fm = require('front-matter')
fm(string, { allowUnsafe: false })
Return a content object with two properties:
content.attributes contains the extracted yaml attributes in json formcontent.body contains the string contents below the yaml separatorscontent.bodyBegin contains the line number the body contents begins atcontent.frontmatter contains the original yaml string contents
NOTE: By default fm() uses ys-yaml's safeLoad unless you set
allowUnsafe in the options object to true.
fm.test(string)
Check if a string contains a front matter header of "---" or "= yaml =". Primarily used internally but is useful outside of the module.
Returns true or false
fm.test(string) #=> true || false
Contributing
front-matter is an OPEN Source Project so please help out by reporting bugs or forking and opening pull requests when possible.
All code is linted/formatted using standard style, any non-conforming code can be automatically formatted using the the fmt make task: make fmt.
Maintainers
Contributors
This module is awesome because of all the folks who submitted pull requests:
CHANGELOG
3.0.0
- CI only tests Node versions >= v6 (drops v4, and v5)
LICENSE (MIT)
Copyright (c) Jason Campbell ("Author")
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