feat: load the sidebar data and titles/excerpts from the blog post markdown document and its frontmatter - #2981
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Way easier now 🚀
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Description
This PR updates the way blog posts are loaded to the Task website. Currently, each blog post has to be added as a markdown document, then added to the sidebar and blog index independently. This PR changes this so that only the markdown document is required.
We use gray-matter) to extract frontmatter from the markdown document and load it dynamically into the sidebar. A function was also added to render and cut an excerpt of text from the markdown document to use as a preview on the blog index page. This works by extracting the text up to the
<!-- more -->comment.I'm going to leave this as a draft until after #2979 is merged since there are likely to be conflicts.
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