metalsmith-clean-html-files v0.1.1
metalsmith-clean-html-files
Introduction
A replacement for the default Metalsmith clean() task, which removes only HTML files from the destination directory instead of removing everything from the destination directory.
It maybe that your destination directory also contains compiled styles, scripts and images as well as your compiled templates and you might not want everything to be deleted every time you run your Metalsmith build task.
This plugin looks through the destination directory and deletes any files with the file extension .html or .htm. It will also check the contents of the files to see if it sees <html and </html> and remove those files also, incase you've removed the file extension to serve from S3.
Usage
Firstly install:
npm install metalsmith-clean-html-filesAnd then, in your Metalsmith build:
const Metalsmith = require('metalsmith');
const cleanFiles = require('metalsmith-clean-html-files');
const ms = Metalsmith(__dirname)
.clean(false)
.use(cleanFiles());Firstly, make sure to not use the standard Metalsmith clean task (.clean(false)) and then use this one (.use(cleanFiles()));
Issues/Contributing/Discussion
If you find a bug in metalsmith-clean-html-files, please add it to the issue tracker or fork it, fix it and submit a pull request for it (👍).
The development script is lib/index.js. Tabs are 2 spaces, functions are commented, variables are camel case and its preferred that its easier to read than outright file size being the smallest possible.