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ssbl

Super Simple Blog Loader for Node.js

Load markdown formatted blog files from a folder as a handy data structure for rendering. Available in npm as ssbl.

Each file represents a post. Post metadata is stored in JSON at the head of each file (complete with optional ```'s if you want it to nicely viewable on GitHub).

Example

Given two files in a directory:

myfirstpost.md

{
    "author" : "Rod Vagg"
  , "date"   : "2012-10-01"
  , "title"  : "My first post!"
}

This is my first post on my blog! How'd you like it?

### It's in Markdown too!

You can put **Markdown** in your *posts* and [links](https://github.com/rvagg/node-ssbl) too!

w00t.md

{
    "author" : "Rod Vagg"
  , "date"   : "2013-10-01"
  , "title"  : "Sorry..."
}

So... it turns out I'm not so great at this blogging thing and I haven't posted in a year so I might just give up eh?

And the following code:

const ssbl = require('ssbl')
ssbl('./example', function (err, data) {
  if (err) throw err
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2))
})

You'll see this:

[
  {
    "spec": {
      "author": "Rod Vagg",
      "date": "2013-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "title": "Sorry..."
    },
    "page": "<p>So... it turns out I&#39;m not so great at this blogging thing and I haven&#39;t posted in a year so I might just give up eh?</p>\n"
  },
  {
    "spec": {
      "author": "Rod Vagg",
      "date": "2012-10-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "title": "My first post!"
    },
    "page": "<p>This is my first post on my blog! How&#39;d you like it?</p>\n<h3>It&#39;s in Markdown too!</h3>\n<p>You can put <strong>Markdown</strong> in your <em>posts</em> and <a href=\"https://github.com/rvagg/node-ssbl\">links</a> too!</p>\n"
  }
]

What you do with it from there is up to you. The data structure is ideal for passing through a templating engine.

This example is in the examples directory.

API

ssbl(path, callback) will give you a data structure representing the given path to a directory containing Markdown files. The data will be returned in order of the date property in the metadata of each post, descending.

Only files ending in .md will be considered and only one level deep will be scanned.

Metadata

Currently your metadata must be valid JSON and have the opening { and } on separate lines by themselves. The only other restriction beyond that is that the metadata contain a "date" property because it's used for sorting. Generally you'd need at least an "author" and a "title" but it's totally up to you and will depend on how you need to present it. The JSON object will be placed in the "spec" property of each element of the returned array with the page contents below the metadata in the "page" property.

If a post has metadata and a "draft" field is truthy then it will be excluded from the list of posts.

Markdown

The markdown is processed with Brucedown which used Marked to parse the Markdown (in GFM by default) and Pygments for syntax highlighting in exactly the same manner as GitHub.

Licence

Super Simple Blog Loader for Node.js is Copyright (c) 2015 Rod Vagg @rvagg and licenced under the MIT licence. All rights not explicitly granted in the MIT license are reserved. See the included LICENSE.md file for more details.