metalsmith-excludes

Excludes documents from the builds based on tags, like draft or sandbox.

Installation

npm install metalsmith-excludes

Usage

Define the tags in your front matter:

---
title: A post
description: A very simple post.
tags: [ draft, example, post ]
---
<h1> {{ title }} </h1>

var excludes = require('metalsmith-excludes');
 
new Metalsmith(__dirname)
    .use(excludes([ 'draft', 'sandbox' ]))
    .build();

You might want to combine this plugin with metalsmith-if:

var excludes = require('metalsmith-excludes');
var msIf = require('metalsmith-if');
 
new Metalsmith(__dirname)
    .use(msIf(
        ENV === 'production',
        excludes([ 'draft', 'sandbox' ])
    ))
    .build();

tags Array

An array containing the tags you want to exclude from the build.

License

MIT License, see LICENSE for details.