Hi guys! I was recently lucky enough to be enrolled by Forestry.io into writing a post for them! The article is about building a Hugo JSON API with Hugo’s Output format. You can add it as a layer on top of your existing site or a simple stand-alone GET API. [image] Build a JSON API With …

here you go, we’ll add it to the post soon: https://github.com/regisphilibert/hugoGetApi/

Yes, lovin the custom outputs feature. I’m putting together a custom data file for a list of categories and a list of tags. The reason is to try and use them with Forestry.IO to make up for not being able to use a dropdown list when manually editing content. One of the few things I miss from WordP…

[image] kaushalmodi: you could have done without manual “comma-management” by using dict and jsonify. @regis Looks like you probably couldn’t have done that way, as I seem to be hitting a Go templating limitation. Fork showing my experimentation with dict + jsonify

No you’d have to use .Scratch.SetInMap extensively just like @chrisdmacrae did in his Algolia piece.

Hmm, I did use .SetInMap ( see )… will have a look at the Algolia piece later. Update: Got it working, though, with a nasty hack ( sample output ).

Hi to all, first of all thank you @regis . The tutorial is really great, but I’m not able to produce a right json list of section items. I have a section called “comune” and I have these files: layout/default/baseof.json { "data" : {{ block "response" .}}{{ end }} } layout/default/single.json…

Hi @aborruso ! Yes this is getting old and Hugo is moving fast! Try modifying the transformer file so the permalink is grabbed with this (.OutputFormats.Get "json").Permalink) rather than simply .Permalink.

[image] regis: Yes this is getting old and Hugo is moving fast! Try modifying the transformer file so the permalink is grabbed with this (.OutputFormats.Get "json").Permalink) rather than simply .Permalink . Hi Regis, I’m not sure to have understood you, sorry :frowning: I have modified my i…

Do you have a repo I could look at?

[image] regis: Do you have a repo I could look at? Yes, this one Andrea Borruso / jhugo · GitLab Thank you

Build a JSON API With Hugo's Custom Output Formats

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I’m thinking about workshops on the matter.

In the mean time you should take a look at this:

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Build a JSON API With Hugo's Custom Output Formats

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