metalsmith-collections-540
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A Metalsmith plugin that adds collections of files to the global metadata.
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metalsmith-collections
A Metalsmith plugin that lets you group files together into an ordered collection, like blog posts. That way you can loop over them to generate an index, or add 'next' and 'previous' links between them.
Features
- can match files by
collection
metadata - can match files by pattern
- can limit the number of files in a collection
- adds collections to global metadata
- adds
next
andprevious
references to each file in the collection
Installation
$ npm install metalsmith-collections
Usage
There are two ways to create collections:
- by pattern - this is just passing a globing pattern that will group any files that match into the same collection.
- by metadata - this is adding a specific
collection
metadata field to each item that you want to add to a collection.
The simplest way to create a collection is to use a pattern to match the files you want to group together:
var collections = require('metalsmith-collections');
metalsmith.use(collections({
articles: '*.md'
}));
Which is just a shorthand. You could also add additional options:
metalsmith.use(collections({
articles: {
pattern: '*.md',
exclude: 'index.md',
sortBy: 'date',
reverse: true
}
}));
But you can also match based on a collection
property in each file's metadata by omitting a pattern, and adding the property to your files:
metalsmith.use(collections({
articles: {
sortBy: 'date',
reverse: true
}
}));
---
title: My Article
collection: articles
date: 2013-02-21
---
My article contents...
All of the files with a matching collection
will be added to an array that is exposed as a key of the same name on the global Metalsmith metadata
.
You can omit passing any options to the plugin when matching based on a collection
property.
Collection Metadata
Additional metadata can be added to the collection object.
metalsmith.use(collections({
articles: {
sortBy: 'date',
reverse: true,
metadata: {
name: 'Articles',
description: 'The Articles listed here...'
}
}
}));
Collection metadata can also be assigned from a json
or yaml
file.
metalsmith.use(collections({
articles: {
sortBy: 'date',
reverse: true,
metadata: 'path/to/file.json'
}
}));
On each collection definition, it's possible to add a limit
option so that the
collection length is not higher than the given limit:
metalsmith.use(collections({
lastArticles: {
sortBy: 'date',
limit: 10
}
}));
By adding refer: false
to your options, it will skip adding the "next" and
"previous" links to your articles.
metalsmith.use(collections({
articles: {
refer: false
}
}));
CLI Usage
All of the same options apply, just add them to the "plugins"
key in your metalsmith.json
configuration:
{
"plugins": {
"metalsmith-collections": {
"articles": {
"sortBy": "date",
"reverse": true
}
}
}
}
License
MIT