https://github.com/rbardini/matter-now

📅 Append the current date to the YAML front matter of Markdown files
https://github.com/rbardini/matter-now

date datetime front-matter markdown now time timestamp yaml

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📅 Append the current date to the YAML front matter of Markdown files

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rbardini/matter-now
• Owner: rbardini
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-01-30T17:57:39.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-03T23:27:15.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T00:47:43.466Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: date, datetime, front-matter, markdown, now, time, timestamp, yaml
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://npm.im/matter-now
• Size: 791 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# matter-now

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Append the current date to the YAML front matter of Markdown files. Useful for adding the published date to static content files like blog posts.

![Demo](demo.gif)

## Installation

```console

npm install -g matter-now

```

## Usage

```console

$ matter-now

Usage: matter-now [options] 

Options:

  -a, --attr   front matter attribute (default: "date")

  -f, --format    date-fns date format (default: "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssxxx")

  -v, --version           output the version number

  -h, --help              display help for command

```

matter-now can also be used with [lint-staged](https://github.com/okonet/lint-staged) to append dates to git staged Markdown files:

```json

{

  "*.md": "matter-now"

}

```

See it in action [here](https://github.com/rbardini/rbardini.com).