Andrew Meyer

> It seems smarter to gauge whether more CLI extensions are really needed first, before deciding to split out the metalsmith cli just because it's in vogue. Agreed. I'm only...

I agree that there are certainly already projects that do scaffolding well and there's no need to reinvent the wheel, but I do think there is potentially some value in...

@cameronjroe I guess the real question here is, what features might we want to include in a tool like this that aren't already available in a dedicated scaffolding tool like...

I think as long as we explain the use of Khaos in our documentation and don't need any metalsmith-specific functionality in our scaffolding tool there's not actually a big difference...

Just stumbled across this article that is surprisingly relevant to what we're discussing here right now: https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b6fc4

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Can you post a [MCVE](https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve) of the problem you're experiencing?

Question: Is the `read` function considered part of Metalsmith's public API? Does it need to continue returning files with the frontmatter already parsed in order to avoid breaking backwards compatibility?

Okay, so assuming `read` and `readFile` _are_ part of the public API (they're documented, and not marked as private, so I guess that's a safe assumption) here's my current plan:...

Well, it's been extracted: https://github.com/Ajedi32/metalsmith-frontmatter Now I just have to send a PR which makes metalsmith use that library. Thoughts?

Well the goal here isn't really to turn off frontmatter parsing per-se, though that would be a side effect of completely extracting it from metalsmith, which I think is a...