Lanterns 
Write Markdown and get a GraphQL API for querying them for free
Install
$ npm install --global lanterns
Usage
Create a folder for storing your Markdown files and name it documents:
mkdir documentsCreate a file and name it according to [year]-[month]-[day]-[slug] format, then write the contents:
---title: Hello Worldcategory: News--- This is my first post!Run Lanterns:
$ lanterns❯ Server is listening at port 3000Execute GraphQL queries at http://localhost:3000/graphql:
{ query { documents { title slug category body } }}Schema
Document
Document represents a single Markdown file in the file system.
type Document { # Title extracted from frontmatter's `title` title: String! # Title converted to a slug slug: String! # Category extracted from frontmatter's `category` category: String # All frontmatter fields frontmatter: JSON! # Document body without frontmatter body: String! # Date when a document was created createdAt: Date! # Date when a document was last updated updatedAt: Date!}documents(skip: Int, limit: Int)
Query documents with optional pagination parameters skip and limit.
Example:
{ query { documents { title slug category frontmatter body createdAt updatedAt } }}document(slug: String!)
Query a single document by its slug.
Example:
{ query { document(slug: "hello-world") { title slug category frontmatter body createdAt updatedAt } }}categories
Query all categories. This resolver scans all documents looking for category field
in frontmatter, removes duplicates and returns the list.
License
MIT © Vadim Demedes