Extend plugin with possibility to process one transformation per use

[ycherniavskyi]

Current implementation of metalsmith-jstransformer plugin process all necessary transformation from extensions and apply layout (if passed) at the end in one run.

But what if I need apply only one transformation on first use. Then execute some other plugins. And finally apply all remained transformation with layout. Example use case:

1. apply only Markdown transformation on some-blog-post.html.md
2. execute for example metalsmith-word-count plugin
3. apply layout with some-blog-post.html content and word count data calculated by previous plugin

May be someone could suggest some already existed solution for this use case.

[ycherniavskyi]

I have tried to call metalsmith-jstransformer plugin two times (first with specified pattern for blog posts and with empty layoutPattern, and second with general pattern and layoutPattern), but it does not work as I understand because of jstransformerDone property assigned to file after first plugin execution.

[RobLoach]

Per use? Change the process in which jstransformers are taken place?

Have word-count process on content before it's passed into the layouts? Seems like you'd want work-count to process before jstransformers.

[ycherniavskyi]

Sorry for intricate terminology - by use I mean Metalsmith API .use(plugin) method.

From my review all plugins which get some information about/from text stick with HTML format (metalsmith-word-count, metalsmith-better-excerpts etc), so they couldn't be applied to Markdown.