Passing variables to templates

[azappa]

Using your plugin I've replaced the metalsmith-jade one but now I don't know how to pass variables to my .jade templates. The code I wrote is:

.use(
    layouts({
      engine: 'jade',
      directory: './_layouts',
      partials: './_partials',
      pretty: true,
      locals: {
        devel: process.env.MODE,
        test: 'pippo'
      }
    })
  )

but in template I don't know how to print them... In my template files locals seems to be passed so I tried

pre=JSON.stringify(locals)

or

pre=locals.toString()

but no success. Is there any other options or something related to metalsmith-in-place that I don't know?

Thank you.

[ismay]

Easiest way to pass variables is to use frontmatter:

---
title: A Catchy Title
draft: true
---

This'll define the variables title and draft for example. See http://www.metalsmith.io/ for an example.

Or if you want to set global variables, use the .metadata() method. Documentation here, and example here. Closing, but feel free to let me know if you have further questions.