Support YAML frontmatter

[dangoor]

I'm in the process of converting one of my sites (with a blog) from WordPress to a static site generator. I'm using Hugo now (Hugo is much faster than any other generator I've seen), but I think Techy has promise. Gulp can run pretty quickly, and I'm a JavaScript person so there would be some convenience for me in being able to customize the behavior.

Jekyll, Hugo and others support YAML frontmatter for adding variables related to a page. It looks like this:

title: My Cool Title
categories:
    - Stuff

---

## My content follows
...

This is something of a standard, and a flexible one at that. It's more convenient than <% set("title", "My Cool Title") %>, especially given that my files already have the frontmatter. Plus, when going from WordPress to one of these formats, there are already converters that generate this sort of output.

One approach would be to create a converter to convert the frontmatter to set() calls, but I think it would be cleaner to support the frontmatter directly and leave the files in that format.

[krasimir]

This sounds like a really nice feature. I'll use https://github.com/nodeca/js-yaml to read the YAML block. Is it ok if I follow this:

The front matter must be the first thing in the file and must take the form of valid YAML set between triple-dashed lines. I.e.:

---
layout: post
title: Blogging Like a Hacker
---

[dangoor]

Yeah, that's right, it's 3 dashes at the top and bottom. Also, there's this library for parsing YAML/JSON frontmatter

[krasimir]

That's great. I'll use this module. It will simplify the implementation.

[krasimir]

It's done. Here is the documentation of that feature http://krasimir.github.io/techy/docs/#using-yaml-front-matter And the test case https://github.com/krasimir/techy/tree/master/tests/using-yaml P.S. You should install the latest 0.0.24 version of Techy

[dangoor]

Cool! That was very fast work!