Are people even using something else than YAML front matter in their Markdown (or whatever) files?
Apparently there are SSGs that support HTML <meta> tag front matter, and if you're using ReStructured Text it probably does its own thing. And I bet there's at least one person on the planet building their website from ASN.1 files.
What are _you_ using?
#WebDev #SSG #YAML #Markdown #FrontMatter #PlainText #StaticSite #StaticWebsite
For the people who are using JSON Front Matter: Are you using…
a) a block, with the first line being just "{" and the last line "}"
{
"title": "My blog post",
"created": "2025-06-08"
}
or
b) a single line
{ "title": "My blog post", "created": "2025-06-08" }
Also, are you using classic JSON or something like JSON5 that allows comments and trailing commas and stuff?
In theory, it's a slice of YAML which I abhor. I'd rather have some plain-text list of key/value pairs like a "mypost.meta" alongside my "mypost.{md,html}" files
Gotta blow the dust off the SSG that I'd been working on
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