Make sitemap.xml markdown blog | A script to create sitemap.xml

Tue Jan 05 2021

- D. K. Dhabale

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Script buildTools/buildSitemap.mjs

Read the comments and place your data where required. Dependencies - fs, path, gray-matter

import fs from "fs"
import { join } from "path"
import matter from "gray-matter"
;(() => {
// NOTE: Replace with your site's url
const site = "https://darshandev.tech/"
// NOTE: The directory where you store your posts, w.r.t. project root
const data = fs.readdirSync("./src/mdx/posts")
// NOTE: The posts directory, but without ./ in the beginning
const postsDirectory = join(process.cwd(), "src/mdx/posts")
console.log(data)
const siteMapData = data.map((slug) => {
//NOTE: Use the extension that you use in your blogs, md or mdx
const realSlug = slug.replace(/\.mdx$/, "")
const fullPath = join(postsDirectory, `${realSlug}.mdx`)
const fileContents = fs.readFileSync(fullPath, "utf8")
const { data } = matter(fileContents)
return { url: site + realSlug, date: data.date }
})
const sitemap = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
${siteMapData
.map((blog) => {
return `
<url>
<loc>${blog.url}</loc>
<lastmod>${new Date(blog.date).toISOString()}</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
`
})
.join("")}
</urlset>
`
// NOTE: The output location
fs.writeFileSync("./public/sitemap.xml", sitemap)
})()

Adding script to package.json

Add this script to package.json scripts object,

"prebuild":"node ./src/buildTools/buildSitemap.mjs",

This will run your script before running build.

Bonus: SEO Tip

You can submit your sitemap to the Google search console and request google to index it. Google Search Console

References

NPM Scripts docs - https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/using-npm/scripts