Markdown support for Trifid

You can use this plugin to serve Markdown files as content for Trifid.

This works well in case you have a lot of Markdown files and want to generate HTML pages out of them.

It supports the following features:

• multilingual content
• default language fallback
• custom templates
• multiple namespaces

A namespace in that regard is a dedicated set of content to serve. A single Trifid instance can host multiple namespaces, and each of them can be configured in an independent way.

Quick start

Install this Trifid plugin using:

npm install @zazuko/trifid-markdown-content

And then add in the config.yaml file the following part:

plugins:
  # […] your other plugins
  markdown-content:
    module: "@zazuko/trifid-markdown-content"
    order: 80
    config:
      defaults:
        autoLink: true
      entries:
        custom-content:
          directory: file:content/custom
          mountPath: /content/

This will create a new custom-content namespace that will serve the content located in the content/custom directory. The content will be available with the /content/ prefix.

Configuration

The following options are supported:

• entries: The list of namespaces to create. Keys should be the namespace names, and values should be the configuration for the namespace (required).
• defaults: The default configuration for all namespaces (optional). This is useful if you want to have the same configuration for all namespaces. You can still override the configuration for a specific namespace.

Namespace options

You can define them in the defaults section or in specific entries in the entries section. Those options are all optional.

• idPrefix: The prefix to use for the generated IDs for headings (default: content-).
• classes: The classes to add to the generated HTML (default: {}). Keys should be the CSS selectors, and values should be the classes to add.
• autoLink: If true, will automatically add links to headings (default: true).
• template: Path to an alternative template (default: views/content.hbs).

Namespace configuration

The following options are required for each namespace:

• directory: The directory where the content is located. This should be a local directory (required).
• mountPath: The path where the content should be mounted. This should be a path that is not used by other plugins (required).

Example

This is a more complete example on how this plugin can be used:

plugins:
  # […] your other plugins
  markdown-content:
    module: "@zazuko/trifid-markdown-content"
    order: 80
    config:
      defaults:
        idPrefix: content-
        classes:
          h1: custom-h1
          h2: custom-h2
          h3: custom-h3
          h4: custom-h4
          h5: custom-h5
          h6: custom-h6
        autoLink: true
        template: file:views/content.hbs
      entries:
        root-content:
          directory: file:content/root
          mountPath: /
        about-content:
          directory: file:content/about
          mountPath: /about/
          autoLink: false # override the default value

Content

The content is expected to be in Markdown format. It should be stored in the configured directory. Each file should be in a dedicated directory. Each directory can contain multiple files:

• en.md: The content in English
• fr.md: The content in French
• de.md: The content in German
• it.md: The content in Italian
• the same for any other languages…
• default.md: The default content in case the language used by the user is not available as a dedicated file

If the default.md file is not present, the content will be empty in case the language used by the user is not available as a dedicated file. A good practice is to always have a default.md file.

Let's take an example. Imagine you want to serve the two following Markdown files:

• about.md
• contact.md

First, create a content directory. Then create a about directory inside the content directory. Inside the about directory, move the about.md file and rename it to default.md.

Then create a contact directory inside the content directory. Inside the contact directory, move the contact.md file and rename it to default.md.

If you want to create the pages directly at the root of your Trifid instance, you can use the following Plugin configuration:

plugins:
  # […] your other plugins
  markdown-content:
    module: "@zazuko/trifid-markdown-content"
    order: 80
    config:
      entries:
        root-content:
          directory: file:content
          mountPath: /

That way, you will have two new endpoints:

• /about: will display the content of content/about/default.md
• /contact: will display the content of content/contact/default.md

If you want to support multiple languages, you can create a XX.md file in each directory, by replacing XX by the language code, like en, fr, de, it, …

If you don't want to use a default language, you can remove the default.md file. It will serve an empty content instead.