Querying current month?

[aaronstezycki]

Hi.

I want to be able to query the current month globally across the project from either a template or individual file. I started by creating a simple shortcode to get the current month.

// shortcode.js

module.exports {
  getMonth: () => {
    const dateObject = new Date();
    const months = ['Janurary', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];
    return `${months[dateObject.getMonth()]}`;
  }
}

I can use this in any template (nunjucks) like so {% getMonth %}. But i wanted to query the result and ask it, "is it December?". However this didn't seem to work. Are shortcodes only exclusive to rendering their contents, or can they be used as a global variable?

I tried ...

{% if getMonth == 'December' %}Do December stuff{% else %} seasonal stuff {% endif %}

but this didn't work.

Any ideas how I might solve this?

[aaronstezycki]

Rather than add this as a shortcode, I've added a utils.js in the _data folder and can now access getMonth like ...

{{ utils.getMonth() }}

// so... 

{% if utils.getMonth() == 'December' %}Do December stuff{% else %}Seasonal stuff{% endif %}

Cushty.