remark-lint-frontmatter-schema

Validate Markdown frontmatter YAML against an associated JSON schema with this remark-lint rule plugin.

Supports:

• Types validation, pattern, enumerations,… and all you can get with JSON Schema
• Code location problems indicator (for IDE to underline)
• Auto-fixes with suggestions
• Command Line Interface reporting
• VS Code integration (see below)
• Global patterns or in-file schemas associations
• In JS framework MD / MDX pipelines

Demo

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👉  Play with pre-configured ./demo

Quick clone with:

pnpx degit JulianCataldo/remark-lint-frontmatter-schema/demo ./demo

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Jump to:

• remark-lint-frontmatter-schema
• Demo
  • 👉  Play with pre-configured ./demo
• Quick start
  • Installation
    • VS Code (optional)
  • Configuration
    • CLI / IDE (VS Code) — Static linting
      • Workspace
      • Schema example
      • Schemas associations
        • Inside frontmatter
        • 🆕  Globally, with patterns
      • CLI usage
    • MD / MDX pipeline — Runtime validation
      • 🆕  Custom pipeline
        • Implementation living example
        • Important foot-notes for custom pipeline
      • Framework
        • Astro
        • Gatsby

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Quick start

Installation

pnpm install -D \
remark remark-cli \
remark-frontmatter \
@julian_cataldo/remark-lint-frontmatter-schema

Remove -D flag for runtime unified MD / MDX pipeline (custom, Astro, Gatsby, etc.), for production.
Keep it if you just want to lint with CLI or your IDE locally, without any production / CI needs.

VS Code (optional)

code --install-extension unifiedjs.vscode-remark

Configuration

CLI / IDE (VS Code) — Static linting

👉  See ./demo folder to get a working, pre-configured, bare project workspace.
You also get example markdown files and associated schema to play with.
Supports remark-cli and/or unifiedjs.vscode-remark extension.

📌  Check out the demo/README.md for bootstrapping it.

Workspace

Create root config file for remark to source from:
touch ./.remarkrc.mjs

Paste this base config:

import remarkFrontmatter from 'remark-frontmatter';
import rlFmSchema from '@julian_cataldo/remark-lint-frontmatter-schema';

const remarkConfig = {
  plugins: [remarkFrontmatter, rlFmSchema],
};
export default remarkConfig;

Schema example

./content/creative-work.schema.yaml

type: object
properties:
  title:
    type: string
# …

Schemas associations

Inspired by VS Code JSON Schema and redhat.vscode-yaml conventions.

Inside frontmatter

See ./demo/content files for examples.

Schema association can be done directly inside the frontmatter of the markdown file, relative to project root, thanks to the '$schema' key:

---
'$schema': /content/creative-work.schema.yaml

title: Hello there
category: Book
# …
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# You're welcome!

🌝  My **markdown** content…  🌚
…

🆕  Globally, with patterns

Note:
Locally defined '$schema' takes precedence over global settings below.

const remarkConfig = {
  plugins: [
    remarkFrontmatter,
    [
      rlFmSchema,
      {
        schemas: {
          /* One schema for many files */
          './content/creative-work.schema.yaml': [
            /* Support glob patterns */
            './content/*-creative-work.md',
            /* Or direct file association */
            './content/the-one.md',
          ],
          './content/ghost.schema.yaml': [
            './content/casper.md',
            './content/ether.md',
          ],
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

'./foo', '/foo', 'foo', all will work.
It's always relative to your ./.remarkrc.mjs file, in your workspace root.

CLI usage

Linting whole workspace files (as ./**/*.md) with remark-cli:

pnpm remark .

Yields:

# …
content/correct-creative-work.md
  1:1  warning  /category: Must be equal to one of the allowed values  frontmatter-schema  remark-lint
  1:1  warning  /complex/some: Must be string                          frontmatter-schema  remark-lint

⚠ 6 warnings

MD / MDX pipeline — Runtime validation

Use it as usual like any remark plugin inside your framework or your custom unified pipeline.

🆕  Custom pipeline

When processing markdown as single files inside your JS/TS app.

Schema should be provided programmatically like this:

// …
import remarkFrontmatter from 'remark-frontmatter';
import rlFmSchema from '@julian_cataldo/remark-lint-frontmatter-schema';
import type { JSONSchema7 } from 'json-schema';
import { reporter } from 'vfile-reporter';

const mySchema: JSONSchema7 = {
  /* … */
};

const output = await unified()
  // Your pipeline (basic example)
  .use(remarkParse)
  // …
  .use(remarkFrontmatter)

  .use(rlFmSchema, {
    /* Bring your own schema */
    embed: mySchema,
  })

  // …
  .use(remarkRehype)
  .use(rehypeStringify)
  .use(rehypeFormat)
  .process(theRawMarkdownLiteral);

/* `path` is for debugging purpose here, as MD literal comes from your app. */
output.path = './the-current-processed-md-file.md';

console.error(reporter([output]));

Yields:

./the-current-processed-md-file.md
  1:1  warning  Must have required property 'tag'  frontmatter-schema  remark-lint

⚠ 1 warning

Implementation living example

Checkout content-maestro repository. It's a text based, structured content framework, for edition and consumption.
Content-Maestro relies on this library for providing file or API based linting errors logs.

You can see remark-lint-frontmatter-schema in action, on this line, in content-maestro source.

Important foot-notes for custom pipeline

This is different from static linting, with VS Code extension or CLI.
It will not source .remarkrc (still, you can source it by your means if you want).
In fact, it's not aware of your file structure, nor it will associated or import any schema / markdown files.
That way, it will integrate easier with your own business logic, even if that means more work.
I found that static linting (during editing) / and runtime validation are two different uses cases enough to separate them in their setups, but I might converge them partially.

Framework

Warning
WIP. NOT tested yet!

See global patterns schemas associations for settings reference.

Astro

In astro.config.mjs

// …
export default defineConfig({
  // …
  remarkPlugins: [
    // …
    'remark-frontmatter',
    ['@julian_cataldo/remark-lint-frontmatter-schema', { schemas }],
    // …
  ];
  // …
});

Gatsby

In gatsby-config.js

{
  // …
  plugins: [
    // …
    {
      resolve: 'gatsby-transformer-remark',
      options: {
        plugins: [
          // …
          'remark-frontmatter',
          ['@julian_cataldo/remark-lint-frontmatter-schema', { schemas }],
          // …
        ],
      },
    },
    // …
  ];
}

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Using:

• CLI Tool

  Remark lint | https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-lint

• IDE Extension (optional)

  VS Code unifiedjs.vscode-remark
  https://github.com/remarkjs/vscode-remark

Major dependencies:

ajv, yaml, remark, remark-frontmatter, unified, remark-cli

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See CHANGELOG.md for release history.

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