Added Changelog

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 All notable changes to the "markdown-create-file" extension will be documented in this file.
 
-Check [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/) for recommendations on how to structure this file.
-
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-- Initial release
+- Initial release
+
+## [0.5.0] 2023-08-04
+- Added Yaml front-matter config file parsing
+The extension will search for a file called `markdown-blog.yaml` and will parse the front-matter from it. The file needs to be in a correct yaml format.
+

README.md

@@ -9,6 +9,26 @@ It can be used with my blog application or as a standalone extension to quickly
 `ctrl + shift + p` to open vscode command palette and search for `Markdown Blog: Create File`
 Or inside the active text editor press `ctrl + shift + c`
 
+### (optional) using external yaml configuration
+In order to use an external yaml configuration file, you can add a **`markdown-blog.yaml`** file to the root of your project and then use the following command:
+`Markdown Blog: Create File`.
+
+#### Yaml front-matter config example
+
+The markdown-blog.yaml file should look like this:
+```yaml
+title: How To Send data from a Vue Page to a persistent Layout
+published_at: 2023-07-30T00:39:00+03:00
+updated_at: 2023-08-02T22:56:00+03:00
+type: article
+description: How to send data from a vue page to a persistent layout in Laravel + inertiajs
+link: /2023/2023-07-30-how-to-send-data-from-page-to-layout
+image: /images/2023-07-31-04-22-45.png
+tags: [vue, inertia, laravel, php, blog, layout]
+```
+The `published_at` and `updated_at` fields can be left empty since they will be automatically generated.
+The title and link will also be automatically generated according to user input.
+
 ## Installation
 To install an extension, run the following command:
 `code --install-extension markdown-blog-extension-0.4.0.vsix`
@@ -19,10 +39,14 @@ or download from Visual studio marketplace: [Marketplace](https://marketplace.vi
 
 Initial release of the extension
 
+### 0.5.0
+- Added Yaml front-matter config file parsing.
+    The extension will search for a file called `markdown-blog.yaml` and will parse the front-matter from it. The file needs to be in a correct yaml format.
+
 
 ## Future plans
 
-- [ ] Add external yaml configuration
+- [x] Add external yaml configuration
 - [ ] Update Yaml front-matter on save
 
 ---

markdown-blog.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+title: How To Send data from a Vue Page to a persistent Layout
+published_at: 2023-07-30T00:39:00+03:00
+updated_at: 2023-08-02T22:56:00+03:00
+type: article
+description: How to send data from a vue page to a persistent layout in Laravel + inertiajs
+link: /2023/2023-07-30-how-to-send-data-from-page-to-layout
+image: /images/2023-07-31-04-22-45.png
+tags: [vue, inertia, laravel, php, blog, layout]

src/app.js

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ const vscode = require('vscode');
 const path = require('path');
 const fs = require('fs');
 const yaml = require('js-yaml');
+const { title } = require('process');
 
 class App {
   /**
@@ -52,17 +53,22 @@ class App {
     const filePath = path.join(currentDirectory, fileName);
 
     let data;
-    if(this.readYmlFile(this.getConfigFilePath())) {
+    if (this.readYmlFile(this.getConfigFilePath())) {
       data = this.readYmlFile(this.getConfigFilePath());
+      data['published_at'] = new Date().toISOString();
+      data['updated_at'] = new Date().toISOString();
+      // convert filename to title, replace underscores and dashes with spaces
+      data['title'] = originalFilename.split('.')[0].replace(/_/g, ' ').replace(/-/g, ' ');
+      data['link'] = `/${new Date().getFullYear()}/${originalFilename.split('.')[0]}`;
+      data = `---\n${yaml.dump(data)}---`;
+    } else {
+      // fill the file with a YAML frontmatter
+      data = `---\ntitle: ${
+        originalFilename.split('.')[0]
+      }\npublished_at: ${new Date().toISOString()}\nupdated_at: ${new Date().toISOString()}\ntype: article\ndescription: Enter description here\nlink: /${new Date().getFullYear()}/${originalFilename}\nimage: images/image.png\ntags: [tag1,tag2]\n---`;
     }
 
-
-    // fill the file with a YAML frontmatter
-    /* data = `---\ntitle: ${
-      originalFilename.split('.')[0]
-    }\npublished_at: ${new Date().toISOString()}\nupdated_at: ${new Date().toISOString()}\ntype: article\ndescription: Enter description here\nlink: /${new Date().getFullYear()}/${originalFilename}\nimage: images/image.png\ntags: [tag1,tag2]\n---`; */
-
-    fs.writeFile(filePath, yaml.dump(data), (err) => {
+    fs.writeFile(filePath, data, (err) => {
       if (err) {
         console.log(err);
       }