filestojson

This script will generarate JSON file from content files.

Setup

npm install filestojson --save-dev

Note: you may have to install Babel globaly to be able to use this lib:

npm install -g babel-cli

What's the application of this? You may ask.

Check the examples of different front-end stacks loading the data and rendering the page:

npm run examples

Command line:

filestojson ./path/to/config.js

Script:

import config from './path/to/config.js'
filestojson(config)

Please refer to the examples/config.js implementation for further example.

Explaining, the config is expected to return an object with the keys:

content should be a string for the content folder path, where all content types containing markdown, images and other suff are located;
output should be a string for the JSON file path that will be generated;
include should be an array of strings, where the strings are file extensions that will be included;
exclude should be an array of strings, where the strings are file name with the extension that will be ignored;
contentTypes should be an array of object, each object containing key and the content type translation function;

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