jam-my-stack 🥞

A set of simple IndieWeb Jamstack publishing syndication tools

Published at https://www.npmjs.com/package/jam-my-stack

These simple scripts enrich your Jamstack-site by adding/manipulating/whatever (meta)data, such as extra posts, indexing, and so forth. A primary example of these tools in action is my own site https://brainbaking.com - inspect how it's used at https://github.com/wgroeneveld/brainbaking

The tools

Usage:

1. yarn add jam-my-stack
2. const { mastodon, goodreads, lunr } = require('jam-my-stack')

1. Mastodon

1.1 parseFeed

An async function that parses your Fediverse-compatible feed (Mastodon/Pleroma/...) and converts entries to .md Markdown files for your Jamstack to enjoy.

Usage example:

    await mastodon.parseFeed({
        notesdir: `${__dirname}/content/notes`,
        url: "https://chat.brainbaking.com/users/wouter/feed",
        utcOffset: 60
    })

Default values:

• utcOffset: 60 (= GMT+1, that's where I am!) (in minutes, see day.js docs

Note that this does not delete the notes dir with every call. It simply checks if there isn't already a file with the same name (based on the publication date), and adds one if not.

Example feed entry:

  <entry>
  <activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/note</activity:object-type>
  <activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb>
  <id>https://chat.brainbaking.com/objects/77a3ecfb-47e1-4d7a-a24a-8b779d80a8ac</id>
  <title>I pulled the Google plug and installed LineageOS: https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-ri...</title>
  <content type="html">I pulled the Google plug and installed LineageOS: &lt;a href=&quot;https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-rid-of-tracking-using-lineageos/&quot; rel=&quot;ugc&quot;&gt;https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-rid-of-tracking-using-lineageos/&lt;/a&gt; Very impressed so far! Also rely on my own CalDAV server to replace GCalendar. Any others here running &lt;a class=&quot;hashtag&quot; data-tag=&quot;lineageos&quot; href=&quot;https://chat.brainbaking.com/tag/lineageos&quot; rel=&quot;tag ugc&quot;&gt;#lineageos&lt;/a&gt; for privacy reasons?</content>
  <published>2021-03-01T19:03:35.273023Z</published>
  <updated>2021-03-01T19:03:35.273023Z</updated>
  <ostatus:conversation ref="https://chat.brainbaking.com/contexts/ff9aa62e-3357-41ad-951d-15f6ad506424">
    https://chat.brainbaking.com/contexts/ff9aa62e-3357-41ad-951d-15f6ad506424
  </ostatus:conversation>
  <link href="https://chat.brainbaking.com/contexts/ff9aa62e-3357-41ad-951d-15f6ad506424" rel="ostatus:conversation"/>
    <summary></summary>
    <link type="application/atom+xml" href='https://chat.brainbaking.com/objects/77a3ecfb-47e1-4d7a-a24a-8b779d80a8ac' rel="self"/>
    <link type="text/html" href='https://chat.brainbaking.com/objects/77a3ecfb-47e1-4d7a-a24a-8b779d80a8ac' rel="alternate"/>
    <category term="lineageos"></category>
      <link rel="mentioned" ostatus:object-type="http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/collection" href="http://activityschema.org/collection/public"/>
        <link rel="mentioned" ostatus:object-type="http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/person" href="https://chat.brainbaking.com/users/wouter"/>
</entry>

This generates the file 01h20m03s35.md (it assumes UTC times in the feed and adjusts according to specified utcOffset, such as GMT+1 in this example), with contents:

---
source: "https://chat.brainbaking.com/objects/77a3ecfb-47e1-4d7a-a24a-8b779d80a8ac"
context: ""
title: "I pulled the Google plug and installed LineageOS: https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-ri..."
date: "2021-03-01T19:03:35"
---

I pulled the Google plug and installed LineageOS: <a href="https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-rid-of-tracking-using-lineageos/" rel="ugc">https://brainbaking.com/post/2021/03/getting-rid-of-tracking-using-lineageos/</a> Very impressed so far! Also rely on my own CalDAV server to replace GCalendar. Any others here running <a class="hashtag" data-tag="lineageos" href="https://chat.brainbaking.com/tag/lineageos" rel="tag ugc">#lineageos</a> for privacy reasons?

See implementation for more details and features.

2. Goodreads

2.1 createWidget

An async function that reads and modifies Goodreads JS widget embed code, converting low-res book covers to hi-res ones if possible. This omits possible Goodread cookies and cross-domain mishaps.

Usage example:

    const widget = await goodreads.createWidget("https://www.goodreads.com/review/grid_widget/5451893.Wouter's%20bookshelf:%20read?cover_size=medium&hide_link=&hide_title=&num_books=12&order=d&shelf=read&sort=date_added&widget_id=1496758344")
    await fsp.writeFile(`${__dirname}/static/js/goodreads.js`, widget, 'utf-8')

3. Lunr

3.1 buildIndex

An async function that reads all .md files of certain locations (pass as an array []), generating a Lunr.js .json index object. Serialize it yourself wherever you'd like it to go.

Usage example:

    const index = await lunr.buildIndex([
        `${__dirname}/content/post`,
        `${__dirname}/content/notes`])
    await fsp.writeFile(`${__dirname}/static/js/brainbaking-post.json`, JSON.stringify(index), 'utf-8')

4. Howlongtobeat

4.1 howlong

Adds https://howlongtobeat.com/ game length (MainGame) and an ID to your front matter, provided you first added a property called game_name. (This gets substituted).

Usage example:

  await howlong(`${__dirname}/content/articles`)

It will print out games and metadata it found. Uses the cool howlongtobeat npm package to do its dirty work.

Working example: https://jefklakscodex.com/articles/reviews/diablo-3/ (on the left side). Check out the Hugo template to use the properties at https://github.com/wgroeneveld/jefklakscodex .