Farm

Farm is a static content engine written in Swift, for Swift projects. It powers my personal site and is meant to be used for sites with static content, such as blogs or websites, either as a complimentary addition or the sole thing driving it - that's for you to decide.

Example content file

All of the content files in Farm are Markdown files. That means they have a file name of example.md. They can be in any directory you want (you can specify it) and they contain YAML metadata. An example of a Farm file is the following (probably a familiar format if you've used Jekyll before):

---
date: 2019-02-18
status: public
slug: example-url-slug
title: Example page
---

Example content in **Markdown** goes here.

This would create the following FarmItem struct:

public struct FarmItem: Codable {
  public var meta: [String: String]
  public var entry: String
}

Installation

To install Farm, simply require it in your Package.swift file like this:

dependencies: [
    .package(name: "Farm", url: "https://git.sr.ht/~askonomm/farm", from: "1.0.1"),
]

Changelog

To be written.

Usage

Retrieving all content in a directory

To retrieve all of the content in a directory, simply initialize Farm with your provided directory and call getAll() on it, like this:

import Farm

let content = Farm(directory: "./Blog/")
let items = content.getAll()

This will return you an array of FarmItem objects.

Retreving a specific item in a directory

To retrieve a specific content item in a directory, initialize Farm and call get(key: "yamlKey", value: "yamlValue") on it (where key and value is corresponding with the YAML key and value in the file), like this:

import Farm

let content = Farm(directory: "./Blog/")
let item = content.get(key: "slug", value: "hello-world")

This will return you a FarmItem object.

Ordering content

You can order content by any meta key in descending or ascending order. For example; if we want to order content by the meta key date in a descending order, we would do the following

import Farm

let content = Farm(directory: "./Blog/", orderBy: "date", order: "desc")

Likewise if you want it to be in ascending order, simply change order to asc.