Jamster

A simple command line tool for generating markdown files with front matter for JAMstack sites. Inspired by Hugo's hugo new, but for the JavaScript ecosystem.

About

• ⚡️Generates markdown files with front-matter like the ones typically used to manage content with static site generators like Eleventy, Jekyll, etc.
• ✌️Written entirely in Node.js so it's cross-platform
• 🔧Specify front-matter content per file by passing specific config files via the --config flag.

Getting started

The easiest way to use Jamster is to install in globally.

npm install -g jamster
 
# Test to make sure it was installed. 
jamster --version
# Should see a version number 
0.1.0

Once once installed you can run it in your terminal from anywhere.

jamster relative/path/to/new/file.md

Installing locally

If you don't want to or can't install Jamster globally you can also install it locally in your project and then run it using npx (Requires npm 5.2.0+).

npx jamster path/to/my/new/file.md

Default generated front matter

Without passing any arguments Jamster will create a new markdown file at the path you specify with the following default front-matter added.

---
title: ''
description: ''
date: (Current date)
---

Customizing generated front-matter

If you want to use different values in your generated front matter there are a couple of ways to do it.

Using a central .config file

If you want to use the same front-matter values for all generated markdown files you can place a file called jamster.config.js that exports a JavaScript Object with your desired values at the root of your project.

Here's and example of how a jamster.config.js file might look.

// ./jamster.config.js
 
module.exports = {
  title: 'My default title',
  description: 'Default description'
  date: new Date(), // You can use regular old Javascript in here!
  tags: ['post', 'development'],
  layout: 'layouts/post.njk'
}

With the this configuration file in place, you can then run

jamster path/to/your/new/file.md

and the resulting front markdown file would contain the following front-matter:

---
title: 'My default title'
description: 'Default description'
date: (Today's date)
tags:
  - post
  - development
layout: 'layouts/post.njk'
---

Specify a configuration using the --config flag

If you want to use multiple different configuration files for different post type in you site, you can specify a different config file after entering the path to you new markdown file.

Example

jamster path/to/my/new/file.md --config path/to/config/myconfig.js