metalsmith-propdown

A metalsmith plugin to convert a property value from markdown to HTML.

Useful if you have other markdown data to convert in a file besides contents.
Requires metalsmith-collections plugin to work. This plugin uses marked to make markdown conversions.

Installation

Install it via NPM:

$ npm install metalsmith-propdown

Usage

const metalsmith = require('metalsmith');
const collections = require('metalsmith-collections');
const propdown = require('metalsmith-propdown');
 
metalsmith('working/dir')
  .use(collections({posts: '*.html'}))
  .use(propdown({ // make sure it comes after collections
    collection: 'posts',
    property: 'excerpt'
  }))

Will convert content of each excerpt property in posts collection files.

Options

`collection`

Type: String (Required)
Name of the configured metalsmith-collection to process files from (see the usage example above).

`property`

Type: String (Required)
Property in which value must be converted from markdown to HTML.

`markdownOptions`

Type: Object (Optional)
Object containing markdown options passed to marked.

Contributing

Fork this repo, install the dependecies, run the tests, submit a pull request.

$ cd metalsmith-propdown
$ npm install
$ grunt test

No grunt? No problem

You can run any grunt task just with npm scripts: npm run grunt -- <taskname>. The following command is the same as grunt test:

$ npm run grunt -- test

Automated workflow

You can keep the tests running automaticaly every time you make any change to the code with dev workflow:

$ grunt dev
$ npm run grunt -- dev

Always implement tests for whatever you're adding to the project. Thanks!