A generator builds routes based on processed files.

Synopsis

hexo.extend.generator.register(name, function(locals){
  // ...
});

A locals argument will get passed into the function, containing the site variables. You should use this argument to get the website data, thereby avoiding having to access the database directly.

Update Routes

hexo.extend.generator.register('test', function(locals){
  // Object
  return {
    path: 'foo',
    data: 'foo'
  };

  // Array
  return [
    {path: 'foo', data: 'foo'},
    {path: 'bar', data: 'bar'}
  ];
});

When the source files are updated, Hexo will execute all generators and rebuild the routes. Please return the data and do not access the router directly.

Example

Archive Page

Create an archive page at archives/index.html. We pass all posts as data to the templates. This data is equivalent to the page variable in templates.

Next, set the layout attribute to render with the theme templates. We’re setting two layouts in this example: if the archive layout doesn’t exist, the index layout will be used instead.

hexo.extend.generator.register('archive', function(locals){
  return {
    path: 'archives/index.html',
    data: locals,
    layout: ['archive', 'index']
  }
});

Archive Page with Pagination

You can use the convenient official tool hexo-pagination to easily build archive pages with pagination.

var pagination = require('hexo-pagination');

hexo.extend.generator.register('archive', function(locals){
  // hexo-pagination makes an index.html for the /archives route
  return pagination('archives', locals.posts, {
    perPage: 10,
    layout: ['archive', 'index'],
    data: {}
  });
});

Generate All Posts

Iterate over all posts in locals.posts and create routes for all the posts.

hexo.extend.generator.register('post', function(locals){
  return locals.posts.map(function(post){
    return {
      path: post.path,
      data: post,
      layout: 'post'
    };
  });
});

Copy Files

This time we don’t return the data explicitly but instead set data to a function so the route will build fs.ReadStream only when needed.

var fs = require('hexo-fs');

hexo.extend.generator.register('asset', function(locals){
  return {
    path: 'file.txt',
    data: function(){
      return fs.createReadStream('path/to/file.txt')
    }
  };
});