Markdown-Organizer

A CLI tool to convert markdown files into TypeScript modules, with fully typed front matter.

• Simple
  • Few dependencies
• Customizable
  • globPattern options for markdown files location
  • User defined front matter with type definition
• Fully Typed
  • TypeScript Only

Usage

Install

npm i -D mdorganizer

Setup

1. Create mdorganizer.config.ts file.

import { UserConfig } from 'mdorganizer';

export default {
  documents: [
    {
      documentCategory: 'blog',
      globPattern: 'content/blog/**/*.md',
      fields: {
        title: {
          type: 'string',
          required: true,
        },
        tags: {
          type: 'string[]',
          after: (tags: string[]) => tags.map((tag) => tag.toLowerCase()),
        },
        author: {
          type: 'string',
        },
        img: {
          type: 'string',
        },
      },
    },
  ],
} satisfies UserConfig;

Available field types are string, string[], boolean, number.

2. Add npm scripts

package.json(for example with Next.js)

...
  "scripts": {
+   "prebuild": "mdorganizer",
    "build": "next build",
  },
...

3. Run command

npm run build

prebuild script will be automatically run before build.

Or, you can run manually using npx.

npx mdorganizer

4. Organized files will be generated in .mdorganizer directory. You can import them in your code. (TypeScript Only)

Example of original markdown file

---
title: Hello World
date: '2021-09-01'
description: This is a sample post.
img: /img/hello-world.png
tags: [sample, hello, world]
author: tuatmcc
---

# Hello World

Example usage of generated module

import type { BlogDocument } from '.mdorganizer/generated'; // import generated type
import { allBlogDocuments } from '.mdorganizer/generated'; // import generated modules

const { documentCategory, rootPath, fields, content } = allBlogDocuments[0];

const {
  title, // string
  date, // string
  img, // string | undefined
  tags, // string[] | undefined
  author, // string | undefined
} = feilds;

---

This package is inspired by contentlayer.