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SurveyJS
JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.
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eleventy 🕚⚡️
A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML.
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markdown-it
Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
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nunjucks
A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired)
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react-syntax-highlighter
syntax highlighting component for react with prismjs or highlightjs ast using inline styles
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InfluxDB
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Updating my website's tech stack in 2025
Next is shifting towards what they're calling App Router. The previous itteration, known as Pages Router is not compatible with those shiny new React Server Components I mentioned earlier. The main difference to me was using simple fetch and async/await syntax to fetch the server side props. In this case, I had a node script that relied on fs to retrieve the markdown files and a library called gray-matter to retrieve their YAML metadata properties. Then all I had to do was transform my [slug] page into an async function and call the function that fetched the posts from the filesystem.
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Introducing docusaurus-plugin-chat-page: An AI-Powered Chat Interface for Your Documentation
Processes and Chunks Content: Using tools like gray-matter and remark (with strip-markdown), the plugin extracts frontmatter (such as titles and tags) and converts the Markdown into plain text. Then it splits this content into manageable chunks (with configurable maximum chunk size) while preserving metadata like file paths.
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How to build a blog with NodeJS
We'll start by initializing a Node project inside a chosen folder (nodejs-blog for me) with and installing a couple of dependencies that I feel like will make our lives easier, like Express, EJS, Marked, the good ol' body-parser and gray-matter.
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How I extend my blog with gamified learning
When updating the front matter I use gray-matter to make it a easy process. The code will check if there is a voice and quiz section in the event, and if so add new tags in the front matter part.
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Building a flat-file CMS with Angular
Writing in markdown is super convenient, and supported by just about any text editor. To convert these .md files to browser-ready HTML, I wrote a simple little Node.js script using two great npm packages called gray-matter and showdown.
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Eleventy vs. Next.js for static site generation
Next, install gray-matter to extract metadata from the front matter of markdown files, and marked to convert the markdown files to HTML:
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Exploring the code behind Docusaurus
It turns out that Docusaurus uses an open source JavaScript parser called gray-matter to parse the front matter from markdown files! After installing gray-matter using npm and them importing it into the markdownUtils.ts file, all it takes is calling the matter method and passing the markdown file contents to get returned an Object with data and content (the data being the front matter and the content being the rest of the markdown file contents).
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Create an Interactive Table of Contents for a Next.js Blog with Remark
Although we are building a custom table of contents, we won't have to write everything from scratch. To separate the Markdown/MDX content from the front matter, we'll use the Gray-matter package. It is optional in case you don't have front matter in your Markdown files. To process the Markdown itself, we'll use the Remark package. We'll also need the unist-util-visit package for traversing node trees and mdast-util-to-string for getting the text content of a node.
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Create your own blog with MDX and NextJS
In this article we walk you through the process of creating a simple blog app using the popular React framework NextJS, gray-matter and next-mdx-remote.
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NextJS 13 Blog Starter
In order to get post information (such as author, title, date, etc.) from our HTML without having them be apart of our rendered post we need a way to parse YAML front matter, this is where gray-matter comes in hand.
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A note from our sponsor - Civic Auth
www.civic.com | 15 May 2025
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jonschlinkert/gray-matter is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of gray-matter is JavaScript.
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