Add new post VS Code task

Convenient for creating a post with the current UTC timestamp

Author: trumully

.vscode/new-post.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { writeFileSync } from "fs";
+import { join } from "path";
+
+const [slug] = process.argv.slice(2);
+
+if (!slug) {
+  console.error("Usage: node new-post.mjs <post-slug>");
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const now = new Date();
+const date = now.toISOString().replace(/\.\d{3}Z$/, "Z");
+
+const filepath = join("src", "blog", `${slug}.md`);
+
+const content = `---
+title:
+date: ${date}
+description:
+tags: []
+---
+`;
+
+writeFileSync(filepath, content);
+console.log(`Created ${filepath}`);

.vscode/tasks.json

@@ -6,13 +6,28 @@
       "type": "promptString",
       "description": "Post slug (e.g. my-post-title)"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "newPostSlug",
+      "type": "promptString",
+      "description": "Post slug (e.g. my-post-title)"
+    },
     {
       "id": "authorName",
       "type": "promptString",
       "description": "Your name (e.g. John Doe)"
     }
   ],
   "tasks": [
+    {
+      "label": "New Post",
+      "type": "shell",
+      "command": "node .vscode/new-post.mjs \"${input:newPostSlug}\"",
+      "presentation": {
+        "reveal": "always",
+        "panel": "shared"
+      },
+      "problemMatcher": []
+    },
     {
       "label": "New Comment",
       "type": "shell",