+'use strict';
+
+const { template, templateSettings } = require('dot');
+const { readFile, writeFile } = require('fs/promises');
+const { join } = require('path');
+const { debuglog } = require('util');
+
+const internals = {
+ debuglog: debuglog('blog'),
+
+ kTextName: 'index.txt'
+};
+
+/**
+ * Generates a TXT version of the blog
+ *
+ * @name TXTGenerator
+ * @param {string} source the source directory
+ * @param {string} target the target directory
+ * @param {Array.<Blog.tPost>} posts the list of posts
+ */
+module.exports = async function TXTGenerator(source, target, posts) {
+
+ internals.debuglog('Generating TXT');
+ const textTarget = join(target, internals.kTextName);
+ const textLocation = join(source, internals.kTextName);
+
+ internals.debuglog(`Reading ${textLocation}`);
+ const textTemplate = await readFile(textLocation, { encoding: 'utf8' });
+
+ internals.debuglog('Writing TXT');
+ const text = template(textTemplate, {
+ ...templateSettings,
+ strip: false
+ })({ posts });
+ await writeFile(textTarget, text);
+};
+