Create a navigation with a .md file structure, read title and description from frontmatter datas

buildIndex_nav.js

/* Building an index of elements : pages,post, …


https://medium.com/@bushwazi/super-simple-static-site-generation-with-node-jade-gulp-and-json-9ded83508fa6#.hvt5p0bqm
https://github.com/Bushwazi/static-site-generation-with-jade-gulp/blob/master/_src/gulpfile.js


*/
// https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-gray-matter
// https://www.npmjs.com/package/gray-matter#options
var frontmatter = require('gulp-gray-matter')
var fsRecurs = require('fs-readdir-recursive')
var matter = require('gray-matter');
var util = require('util')
var pageDir = './src/pages/'
var summaryJSON = new Object()

function buildIndex(baseDir,objectType){
    var counter = 0 ;
    files = fsRecurs(baseDir)
    files.map(function(url,ind,arr){
        //current = fs.readFileSync(pageDir + url, 'utf-8')
        
        file = matter.read(baseDir + url)
        
                if(path.basename(file.path,'.md') === 'index')
                    url =  '/'
                else
                    url =  path.dirname(file.path).replace(baseDir, '') + '/' + path.basename(file.path,'.md') + '.html'
            
        //console.log(path.dirname(file.path).replace(pageDir, ''))
       
       summaryJSON[objectType + '-' + counter] = {
            'path': file.path,
            'url': url,
            'title': file.data.title,
            'description': file.data.description
        }
        
        counter++;
    });
    
    return  summaryJSON;
}


console.log(buildIndex(pageDir,'page'))