Extract-Yaml-From-Markdown-Plugin

A webpack plugin for extracting yaml content from a markdown file automatically

Why

This plugin allows people to write markdown with YAML, then extrct the YAML content to a .json file.

What's more, while under --watch mode or webpack-dev-server, every changes inside a pointed directory will be detected(adding, changing and deleting), and the new content will be written to a .json file automatically.

Install

Yarn:

yarn add extract-yaml-from-markdown-plugin --dev

Npm:

npm install extract-yaml-from-markdown-plugin --save-dev

Usage

Go into your webpack.config.js, require extract-yaml-from-markdown-plugin.js, then init it in the plugins option.

// webpack.config.js

const { resolve } = require('path')
const extractYamlFromMarkdownPlugin = require('extract-yaml-from-markdown-plugin.js')

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    new extractYamlFromMarkdownPlugin({
      mdDir: resolve(__dirname, './your-markdown-directory'),
      output: resolve(__dirname, './output-path-of-you-want')
    })
  ]
}

Options

• mdDir { String }:

  Your markdown files' directory. After defined, the plugin will be watching this directory. Once you add/update/delete one markdown file, the plugin will update the YAML information and then write them to a .json file.

• output { String }:

  The plugin will extract YAML information from the given markdown file, then write them to a .json file from the path you set to output.

• exclude { Array }:

  An array of regEx that you don't want the plugin to care about.

• format { Number }:

  The plugin using JSON.stringify() method to convert an object into string. format will be the last param of this method.

Test

git clone https://github.com/jrainlau/extract-yaml-from-markdown-plugin.git

cd extract-yaml-from-markdown-plugin && yarn

# using `webpack` command
yarn test

# using `webpack --watch` command
yarn test:watch

# using `webpack-dev-server` command
yarn test:dev-server

Go to /example directory to find out what you got.

Lisence

MIT