simple jekyll posts generator

As you can guess from the title, this is a node module to generate jekyll posts easily from within your terminal.

Installation

type in your terminal :

npm install -g jekyll-post-generator

In some computers you need to be an administrator to install this module, in that case just precede the previous command with sudo.

After installing this package you can access the global command jgen from within any folder you want.

Usage

Navigate to some jekyll website folder that have the following structure :

.
├── _config.yml
├── _drafts
├── _includes
├── _layouts
├── _posts
|   |── posts are listed here ...
├── _data
├── _site
├── .jekyll-metadata
└── index.html

Now you can create a basic article using the create command

jgen create-post 'my article title'

OR

 jgen create-post "my article title"

At this time if you go inside _posts folder, you will see a new file [YYYY-MM-DD]-my-article-title.md generated for you.

Options

You can see the list of options available with any command using jgen [COMMAND_NAME] -h or jgen -h to list the options available with the global command jgen, Here is some examples :

#list options available with create command
jgen create-post -h

# specify the current post categories
jgen create-post <postName> -c category1,category2,...

# Specify the layout of the current post
jgen create-post <postName> -l post

# Specify the author of the current post
jgen create-post <postName> -a author

# Specify the subtitle of the current post
jgen create-post <postName> -s subtitle

# Specify the header image of the current post
jgen create-post <postName> -himg header-image-path

# You can specify multiple options at the same time :
jgen create-post <postName> -l post -c category1,category2

# Create new category 
jgen create-category <categoryName> 

TODO

• Add other essential options.
• Add test cases.
• ...