Support for non-HTML output formats?

[shah]

I was curious if Lume supports non-HTML output formats such as:

• iCal (if we want to generate an iCal dynamically and serve that up)
• RSS (for obvious reasons)
• JSON (for example to serve up a JSON file through generated content, not static)
• MD (in case the final markdown should be served to the client and transformed in the browser)

By way of reference, here the custom output formats Hugo supports (we are using iCal and a few others now).

[oscarotero]

Yes, you can output any format. There are two ways:

• Add a subextension to the file. For example, styles.css.njk is a nunjucks file that output the file styles.css.
• Or include the url variable in the frontmatter or named module. For example:

export const url = "feed.rss";

In base-blog you have examples of both methods:

• Nunjucks template that exports a xml file with the RSS. Link
• Javascript template that exports a Json Feed. Link

[shah]

Beautiful, thanks!

[shah]

In case it's helpful, for those using TypeScript this is necessary if creating a JSON output format: /api/file.json.tmpl.ts template will create /api/file.json (I did not have a layout and just emitted output of JSON.stringify(data).

The feature is fantastic and much easier than in other static site generators. Now, we can create complete APIs statically.