11ty new post node script

I asked ChatGPT to write a node script to scaffold out new 11ty posts and here's what it gave me.

const fs = require("fs");
const readline = require("readline");
const { kebabCase } = require("lodash");

const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
});

// Prompt user for the name of the blog post
rl.question("Enter the name of the blog post: ", (name) => {
  const folderName = kebabCase(name);
  const directoryPath = `./${folderName}`;

  // Create the folder with kebab-cased name
  fs.mkdir(directoryPath, { recursive: true }, (error) => {
    if (error) {
      console.error(`An error occurred while creating the directory: ${error}`);
      rl.close();
      return;
    }

    const filePath = `${directoryPath}/index.md`;
    const frontmatter = `---
title: "${name}"
date: ${new Date().toISOString()}
---

`;

    // Create the index.md file with relevant frontmatter
    fs.writeFile(filePath, frontmatter, (error) => {
      if (error) {
        console.error(`An error occurred while creating the file: ${error}`);
      } else {
        console.log(`Blog post scaffolded successfully! Folder: ${folderName}`);
      }
      rl.close();
    });
  });
});

This ended up working really well. I customized the line where the directoryPath is set.

const directoryPath = `./posts/${new Date().getFullYear()}/${folderName}`;

Then I just add it as a script to my package.json.

"scripts": {
    "post": "node ./new-blog-post.js",
}

👍 Now I can scaffold a new post by running npm run post. 💥 This puts the post in the right place for my project with the year in it. Example below:

---
title: "11ty new post node script"
date: 2023-05-13T18:21:59.956Z
---