Post template

A post template takes post properties received and parsed by the Micropub endpoint and renders them in a given file format, for example, a Markdown file with YAML front matter.

The postTemplate() method takes one argument, properties, which contains the derived properties for a post, for example:

{
  published: '2020-02-02',
  name: 'What I had for lunch',
  content: 'I ate a cheese sandwich, which was nice.',
}

The postTemplate() method determines how this data will get transformed. For example, if you wanted to output a format used by Kirby, you might write the following function:

// my-post-template.js
export const myPostTemplate = (properties) => {
  let text;

  if (properties.published) {
    text += `\n---\nDate: ${properties.published}\n---`;
  }

  if (properties.name) {
    text += `\n---\nTitle: ${properties.name}\n---`;
  }

  if (properties.content) {
    text += `\n---\nText: ${properties.content}`;
  }

  return text;
};

You can then reference this function in your config file:

// indiekit.config.cjs
import { myPostTemplate } from "./my-post-template.js";

export default {
  publication: {
    postTemplate: myPostTemplate,
  },
};

This would then generate the following file:

text

---
Date: 2020-02-02
---
Title: What I had for lunch
---
Text: I ate a cheese sandwich, which was nice.

You can see examples of this function being used in the Jekyll and Hugo publication presets: