Hey!
I just added the first batch of my most favorite games into the gaming list. I thought it might be a cool idea to add such page where I can keep a library of all the games I’ve finished, how long it took me, when I finished it etc. This could obviously be expanded to series, books and others. (Which I’m obviously going to do later :P)
For this to be possible I made a Hugo shortcode that takes a CSV file as an input and makes a HTML table out of it. My biggest struggle was getting the last modified date printed on the bottom of the page (it’s very silly, but I wanted it to be there) - since you are not changing the markdown file itself (in my example /content/list/games.md), but the CSV /assets/games.csv, I would have to change the lastmod in the header of the markdown file every single time, which is not something that I wanted to do and I know myself.. I would forget to do it. So instead I got a simple one liner that stores the last modified date from git log inside /data/assets.yaml which I can later retrieve in the shortcode using .Site.Data. I made a Makefile to automate this process on every build. This is how it looks:
mkdir -p data && > data/assets.yaml && for f in assets/*.*; do echo ${f##*/}: "$( git log --date=format:"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" --pretty="%ad" -1 $f)" >> data/assets.yaml; done
This one-liner creates a directory called data, then clears the data/assets.yaml file. It then loops through all files inside the assets folder, appending each file’s name and its last commit date (from Git) to the assets.yaml file in the format filename: commit_date.
I also added searching functionality to the shortcode with a very simple JavaScript code. Sadly with this change, the 100% JavaScript website dream has come to an end. (Only 99.9% free now :D)
Try taking a look at the list yourself here. I had to go deep down the memory lane to even remember some of those and I will obviously add more games once I remember them!:D
See ya.