gulp-markdown-toc

Gulp plugin for markdown-toc. Generate a markdown table of contents for one or more markdown files, and an optional index for multiple files.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save gulp-markdown-toc

Usage

var gulp = require('gulp');
var toc = require('gulp-markdown-toc');

gulp.task('toc', function() {
  return gulp.src('*.md')
    .pipe(toc())
    .pipe(gulp.dest('.'));
});

Heads up!

Add the following to markdown file where you want a Table of Contents to be injected:

<!-- toc -->

Options

In addition to the following plugin options, all markdown-toc options are supported as well. See that library for additional details.

options.index

Type: {Boolean|String|Function}

Default: undefined

Generate a Table of Contents index file. If options.index is left undefined, an index file will not be generated.

// generates a file named `toc.md`
toc({index: true})

// specify the name of the index file
toc({index: 'foo.md'})

// customize the destination and file path of the index file
toc({
  index: function(file) {
    file.basename = 'whatever.md';
    return 'blah';
  }
})

options.filterFiles

Type: {Function}

Default: undefined

Filter the files to be included in the TOC index.

toc({
  filter: function(file) {
    return file.relative !== 'foo.md';
  }
})

options.sortFiles

Type: {Function}

Default: undefined

Pass a compare function for sorting the files to be included in the TOC index.

toc({
  sort: function(fileA, fileB) {
    // fileA and fileB are vinyl files
    return fileA.relative < fileB.relative;
  }
})

options.headingName

## [headingName](#headingLink)

Type: {Function}

Default: undefined

Customize heading names.

toc({
  headingName: function(name) {
    // do stuff to name
    return name;
  }
})

options.headingLink

## [headingName](#headingLink)

Type: {Function}

Default: undefined

Customize heading links.

toc({
  headingLink: function(link) {
    // do stuff to link
    return link;
  }
})

About

Related projects

• gulp-format-md: Gulp plugin for beautifying markdown using pretty-remarkable. | homepage
• markdown-toc: Generate a markdown TOC (table of contents) with Remarkable. | homepage
• remarkable: Markdown parser, done right. 100% Commonmark support, extensions, syntax plugins, high speed - all in… more | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Please read the contributing guide for advice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.6.0, on July 08, 2017.