matthewowen / jekyll-json

Turn config into JSON

NOT MAINTAINED

I hope this helps you, but I have to be honest: I'm not really working on this anymore, and so I can't rule out that there are things that don't work right etc etc etc. If you want to contribute or fork or anything, please do! But I just don't really have the bandwidth for bugfixes, let alone feature requests! Sorry :(.

Jekyll JSON

Jekyll JSON turns YAML config into JSON, so that you can use it in Javascript.

Passed a YAML key, it'll return a JSON, combining the page specific YAML with any config in _config.yml (using the value set on the page wherever there's a conflict).

Usage

Plonk jekyll_json.rb in your _plugins directory.

Use the tag like this:

{% yaml_to_json yaml_key_goes_here %}

An example

In _config.yml:

mapping:
    provider: google_js
    api_key: 123456
    zoom: 10
    dimensions:
        width: 600
        height: 400

In a page's front matter:

mapping:
    latitude: 0
    longitude: 0
    dimensions:
        width: 500
        height: 500

In your layout:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var some_object = {% yaml_to_json mapping %};
</script>

Returns:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var some_object = {
        "longitude":0,
        "api_key":123456,
        "dimensions":{
            "height":500,
            "width":500
        },
        "provider":"google_js",
        "latitude":0,
        "zoom":10
    };
</script>