Noddity-retrieval NPM

Noddity Retrieval

This module provides an API to a Noddity data store full of posts and a list of said posts.

You give it an http(s) root, and that's all it needs to provide

an async getter function to download parsed post objects
an async getter function to download an array of post objects based on the index.json file from the root directory

So I have this idea, right? Where your blog posts could just be a directory with an index file and a bunch of markdown files, just being served out onto the internet.

The idea is that your root directory of posts contains:

An index.json file, containing a JSON array of strings representing the file names that are your "official" blog posts, in order.
Whatever markdown files you want to be accessible, with metadata stored in a format amenable to text-metadata-parser.

Usage

var retrieve = new Retrieve('http://remote-server.com/blogfiles/')

retrieve.getIndex(function(err, index) {
	if (!err && index.length > 0) {
		// Get the most recent post
		retrieve.getPost(index.pop(), function(err, post) {
			console.log("Found post named " + post.metadata.title)
			console.log("The words inside it are:\n" + post.content)
		})
	}
})

This is the core module of the Noddity cms.