helper-front-matter

Template helper for parsing front matter and passing the data to templates as context.

Install with npm

npm i helper-front-matter --save

Usage

First, let's register another cutomer helper for this example:

var fs = require('fs');
var handlebars = require('handlebars');
var matter = require('helper-front-matter')(handlebars);

Register the helper

// this is our helper
handlebars.registerHelper('matter', matter(handlebars));

// these are extra helpers we'll use for examples
handlebars.registerHelper('markdown', require('helper-markdown'));
handlebars.registerHelper('read', function (fp) {
  return fs.readFileSync(fp, 'utf8');
});

Create some templates

Given you have a file, abc.hbs, with the following contents:

---
title: ABC
foo: bar
---

## This is {{title}}

> this is a blockquote

Use the helpers

Used with the markdown helper as a block helper:

{{#markdown}}
# Heading
{{{matter (read "fixtures/abc.hbs")}}}
{{/markdown}}

Renders to:

<h1>Heading</h1>
<h2>This is ABC</h2>
<blockquote>
<p>this is a blockquote</p>
</blockquote>

Used with the markdown helper as an inline helper:

{{{markdown (matter (read "fixtures/abc.hbs"))}}}

Renders to:

<h2>This is ABC</h2>
<blockquote>
<p>this is a blockquote</p>
</blockquote>

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

npm i -d && npm test

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Schlinkert
Released under the MIT license

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