I’m using .Site.Data and {{ range }} to fetch and loop through data from JSON files in my data folder. It works great. My question is: For each JSON file, I’d like to display the timestamp of the file’s last commit. I see Hugo makes this info available to templates using .LastMod when enabling en…

.Lastmod is a .Page property. The data files are not pages. So we need to find another way. Option 1: Get the modification time from the file system This is not the same as the Git author date, but it’s easy to do. {{ (os.Stat "data/a.json").ModTime }} Option 2: Create a metadata file Run a Bas…

Git .LastMod for JSON files

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fgandiya May 13, 2021, 11:23am 3

I did this once but it’s a bit of a hack.

The idea is to use Hugo modules to make the json file look like a regular page which will then have lastmod.

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