added gitignore

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+package-lock.json
+node_modules/

example_post.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+title: "This is a post!"
+author: "Me"
+timestamp: "1692975412936"
+type: "text/plain"
+---
+It can have an arbitrary number of attributes, followed by a content body.

index.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 const express = require('express');
+const matter = require('gray-matter');
 const router = express.Router();
 const { exec } = require('child_process');
 
@@ -59,7 +60,36 @@ router.get('/viewPost', (req, res) => {
       console.log(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
       return;
     }
-    res.send(stdout.split('\n').filter(Boolean));
+    let post = matter(stdout)
+    let { title, author, timestamp } = post.data
+    let html=""
+
+    if ( title ) {
+      html += `<h1>${title}</h1>`
+    }
+
+    if ( author && timestamp ) {
+      let date = new Date(parseInt(timestamp)).toLocaleString()
+      html += `<header>Created by ${author} on ${date}</header>`
+    }
+    html += '<hr/>'
+    html += `<p>${post.content}</p>`
+    res.send(html);
+  });
+});
+
+router.get('/api/viewPost', (req, res) => {
+  let { filename } = req.query;
+  exec(`./routes/viewPost --filename=${filename}`, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
+    if (error) {
+      console.log(`error: ${error.message}`);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (stderr) {
+      console.log(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
+      return;
+    }
+    res.json(matter(stdout));
   });
 });
 

routes/listPosts

@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ limit=$3
 
 offset=$(( (page - 1) * limit ))
 
-ls -1 "$dir"/*.yaml | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sed 's/\.yaml$//' | tail -n "+$((offset+1))" | head -n "$limit"
+ls -1 "$dir"/*.yaml | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | tail -n "+$((offset+1))" | head -n "$limit"

routes/viewPost

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-# usage: ./viewPost.sh --file=<filename>
+# usage: ./viewPost.sh --filename=<filename>
 
 # Parse the arguments
 for arg in "$@"
 do
     case $arg in
-        --file=*)
+        --filename=*)
         file="${arg#*=}"
         ;;
     esac