Frontmatter

The frontmatter improves the experience of generating static content, with the EStack frontmatter you can:

1. Modify write link using the property link.
2. Associate language using the lang property.
3. Associate categories using the category property.
4. Associate assets.
5. Build data using the properties $link and $ref.
6. Make request to services
7. Declare pages as templates and use them through layout

Schema

link: string

Alias permalink, declare the link of the page to write, example:

link: folder/users

This page will be written in the destination as folder/users.html.

link: folder/users/

This page will be written in the destination as folder/users/index.html.

lang: string

Declare a language for the page, lang is associated with the category object for queries.

category: string[]

Declare one or more categories for the page, these categories are associated with the category object for queries.

fragment: string

Declare the page as a fragment, fragment type pages are only printed on demand by using the tag {% fragment myFragment with ... data%}.

tempalte: string

Declare the page as a template, if the template is defined as default, all the pages that do not declare layout will inherit the default template.

global: string

It allows to retrieve the page through the global object, This in order to access all the data that the page contains.

$ref: string

It allows to relate external files to the page, either from urls or local, example:

todos:
    $ref: https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos
users:
    $ref: users.yaml
menu:
    $ref: site.yaml~menu
author:
    $ref: autors.yaml~uppercod
    label: autor

$link: string

It allows to build links, the links force the loading of the files to the build for the association as a resource, be it page or asset, example:

thumbnail:
    $link: thumbnail-320x220.jpg
menu:
    - $link: home.md
    - $link: user.md
    - $link: contact.md