front-matter-extractor

Separate front-matter from content

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import frontMatterExtractor from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/front-matter-extractor';
</script>

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install:

$ npm install -g front-matter-extractor

this code:

var fme = require("front-matter-extractor");
var extracted = fme.extract(input);

where input is a string containing:

---
title: something
date: 2013-10-20
words:
    - this
    - that
---
blah blah blah

sets extracted to the following object:

{
    title: "something",
    date: Mon Oct 20 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT),
    words: [ 'this', 'that' ],
    _remainder: "blah blah blah"
}