gen-summary

Command line utility that can be called to parse a specific Markdown file into a SUMMARY.json file or dictionary with the following format:

{
  "array": [
    {
      "title": "Link Title",
      "link": "file.md",
      "sub": [
        {
          "title": "Link Title 3",
          "link": "file3.md",
          "sub": [ ... ]
        },
        ...
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Link Title 2",
      "link": "file2.md"
    }
  ],
  "title": ""
}

How to Install

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the root and run npm install
3. Run npm run build
4. The utility can be used by calling gensum
5. Test that you have the utility working by running gensum -v to get the version number.
6. You can also try gensum -h or gensum --help

How to Use

This repository comes with a sample folder in the root directory of this repository containing two identical Markdown files aside from their filenames. The tool will not work if you use sample.md, since it should only work with files named SUMMARY.md or summary.md. You can use those files to mess around with development.

Commands

• verify
• generate

verify - Verify Markdown File

gensum verify [options] <path> [src]   

Available Options:

• -a, --abs - Ignores [src] and assumes <path> is an absolute filepath.

Available Arguments:

• <path> - Required argument. The filepath of the Markdown file.
• [src] - Optional argument. If specified, the Markdown file's path will become relative to the directory specified in this folder. If not specified, gensum will use the current working directory.

generate - Generate SUMMARY.json or SUMMARY dictionary

gensum generate [options] <path> [src]

Alias: gen

Available Options:

• -a --abs - Ignores [src] and assumes <path> is an absolute filepath.
• -j --outjson - Outputs the summary dictionary as SUMMARY.json instead of just outputting the summary dictionary

Available Arguments:

• <path> - Required argument. The filepath of the Markdown file.
• [src] - Optional argument. If specified, the Markdown file's path will become relative to the directory specified in this folder. If not specified, gensum will use the current working directory.