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package.json

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 {
-  "name": "cloud_haiku",
-  "version": "1.0.0",
-  "description": "Haiku structure testing for cloud_haiku repo",
-  "main": "node test.js",
-  "scripts": {
-    "test": "tap node test.js -R min --no-coverage-report --timeout=300"
-  },
-  "repository": {
-    "type": "git",
-    "url": "git+https://github.com/do-community/cloud_haiku.git"
-  },
-  "author": "DigitalOcean Community Team",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "bugs": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/do-community/cloud_haiku/issues"
-  },
-  "homepage": "https://github.com/do-community/cloud_haiku#readme",
-  "dependencies": {
-    "node-fetch": "^2.6.1",
-    "remark": "^14.0.2",
-    "remark-extract-frontmatter": "^2.0.0",
-    "remark-frontmatter": "^1.3.2",
-    "strip-markdown": "^3.1.1",
-    "syllable": "^4.0.0",
-    "tap": "^14.6.9",
-    "to-vfile": "^6.0.0",
-    "yaml": "^1.7.0"
-  }
-}
+    "name": "cloud_haiku",
+    "version": "1.0.0",
+    "description": "Haiku structure testing for cloud_haiku repo",
+    "main": "node test.js",
+    "scripts": {
+        "test": "tap node test.js -R min --no-coverage-report --timeout=300"
+    },
+    "repository": {
+        "type": "git",
+        "url": "git+https://github.com/do-community/cloud_haiku.git"
+    },
+    "author": "DigitalOcean Community Team",
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "bugs": {
+        "url": "https://github.com/do-community/cloud_haiku/issues"
+    },
+    "homepage": "https://github.com/do-community/cloud_haiku#readme",
+    "dependencies": {
+        "append-transform": "^latest",
+        "node-fetch": "^2.6.1",
+        "remark": "^14.0.2",
+        "remark-extract-frontmatter": "^2.0.0",
+        "remark-frontmatter": "^1.3.2",
+        "strip-markdown": "^3.1.1",
+        "syllable": "^4.0.0",
+        "tap": "^14.6.9",
+        "to-vfile": "^6.0.0",
+        "yaml": "^1.7.0"
+    }
+}

test.js

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+const assert = require('assert');
+import remark from 'remark';
+import { validateHaiku } from './validateHaiku';
+const frontmatter = require('remark-frontmatter');
+const extract = require('remark-extract-frontmatter');
+const yaml = require('yaml').parse;
+const strip = require('strip-markdown');
+const vfile = require('to-vfile');
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+const dir = './_haikus/';
+const blockList = ['haikus.md'];
+
+const files = fs.readdirSync(dir);
+
+files.forEach(async(file) => {
+    if (!blockList.includes(file)) {
+        const [text, meta] = await processMarkdown(dir + file);
+        const lines = text.split('\n').filter((line) => line !== '');
+
+        if (meta.test !== false) {
+            validateHaiku(file, lines, meta);
+        }
+    }
+});
+
+async function processMarkdown(filename) {
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        remark()
+            .use(frontmatter)
+            .use(extract, { yaml: yaml })
+            .use(strip)
+            .process(vfile.readSync(filename), (err, file) => {
+                if (err) {
+                    reject(err);
+                } else {
+                    resolve([file.toString(), file.data]);
+                }
+            });
+    });
+}

validateHaiku.js

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+const tap = require('tap');
+const syllable = require('syllable');
+
+export function validateHaiku(filename, lines, meta) {
+    tap.test(filename, () => {
+        tap.test('should have a '.md, ' file extension', () => {
+            tap.ok(/\.md$/.test(filename), 'extension does not match '.md, '');
+        });
+
+        tap.test('file metadata', () => {
+            tap.test('should have layout equal to \'haiku\'', () => {
+                tap.equal(meta.layout, 'haiku', 'layout metadata should equal \'haiku\'');
+            });
+
+            tap.test('should have non-blank title', () => {
+                tap.equal(typeof meta.title, 'string', 'title metadata is missing');
+            });
+
+            tap.test('should have non-blank author', () => {
+                tap.equal(typeof meta.author, 'string', 'author metadata is missing');
+            });
+        });
+
+        tap.test('haiku structure', () => {
+            tap.test('should have three lines', () => {
+                tap.equal(lines.length, 3);
+            });
+
+            tap.test('should have five syllables on the first line', () => {
+                tap.equal(syllable(lines[0]), 5);
+            });
+
+            tap.test('should have seven syllables on the second line', () => {});
+        });
+    });
+}