.gitignore

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

example_post.yaml

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-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

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 const express = require('express');
-const matter = require('gray-matter');
 const router = express.Router();
 const { exec } = require('child_process');
 
@@ -60,36 +59,7 @@ router.get('/viewPost', (req, res) => {
       console.log(`stderr: ${stderr}`);
       return;
     }
-    let post = matter(stdout)
-    let { title, author, timestamp } = post.data
-    let html=""
-
-    if ( title ) {
-      html += `<h1>${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));
+    res.send(stdout.split('\n').filter(Boolean));
   });
 });
 

routes/listPosts

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

routes/viewPost

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