RE: Busy.org improve meta-description for sharing on social

[fel1xw]

Hey kirkins,

as lodash is already included in the project you could simply change the following line:

const desc = `${bodyText.substring(0, 140)} by ${author}`;

to:

const desc = `${_.truncate(bodyText, { length: 140 })} by ${author}`;

This would produce a string with ... at the end automatically, if you want to have 140 characters and then the dots, use { length: 143 }, otherwise it will to 137 characters and then the dots to be 140 characters in total.

And of course you first need to import it like: import _ from 'lodash'.
You can find the documentation here: https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.5#truncate

Best

Comments

[kirkins]

Thanks, going to give it a try.

[fel1xw]

Great. You can give me a reply if it worked.

Anyway your implementation would work as well, but why reinventing the wheel? :P

[kirkins]

I was thinking what I had should work. Either way I made a new PR based on your suggestion, thanks!

https://github.com/busyorg/busy/pull/1686

[fel1xw]

This time the build is passing. Thanks for mention me there! It looks like you need to rebase against latest master branch.