meta-marked

meta-marked

The marked markdown processor for Node.js with support for YAML metadata

Just a quick extension I needed for processing markdown in Node. Props to Christopher Jeffrey for his excellent markdown processor 'marked'.
The meta-marked function behaves exactly the same as marked, except for the following:

• Instead of returning a parsed string, meta-marked returns an object with the following properties:

- `meta` contains the metadata object or `null` if metadata isn't found
- `html` contains the parsed HTML
- `markdown` contains the text of the markdown section of the string

• metaMarked.noMeta is a reference to the marked function, so it can be used to avoid parsing metadata.

In order to include metadata in a document, insert YAML at the top of the document surrounded by --- and .... Note that if the given string doesn't start with ---, it will not be interpreted as having metadata.

Example

---
Title:   My awesome markdown file
Author:  Me
Scripts:
    - js/doStuff.js
    - js/doMoreStuff.js
...

##Header
Regular text and stuff goes here.

You can also use the approach below, which will result in a very nice data table at the top of your markdown when viewing the file GitHub:

```

Title: My awesome markdown file Author: Me Scripts:

- js/doStuff.js
- js/doMoreStuff.js

---

Header

Regular text and stuff goes here.

Both of the above will result in the following output:

{

"meta": {
	"Title": "My awesome markdown file",
	"Author": "Me",
	"Scripts": [
		"js/doStuff.js",
		"js/doMoreStuff.js"
	]
},
"html": "<h2>Header</h2>\n<p>Regular text and stuff goes here.</p>\n",
"markdown": "\n\n##Header\nRegular text and stuff goes here."

}

###Testing

npm test ```

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