# Client API

TIP

We strongly recommend that you read the Getting Started section before using Client API.

# $pagination

WARN

Note that if you're accessing $pagination at a route which doesn't match any classification, the value of $pagination will be null.

So when you develop layout components, you need to verify that $pagination exists.

# $pagination.pages

Matched pages for current route. example:

[
  { "relativePath": "b.md", "path": "/b.html" ... },
  { "relativePath": "a.md", "path": "/a.html" ... },
]

# $pagination.length

Length of current paginations.

# $pagination.hasPrev

Whether previous pagination page exists.

Link of previous pagination page.

# $pagination.hasNext

Whether next pagination page exists.

Link of next pagination page.

Get specific pagination page via page number.

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You can use this function to custom the pagination component as the internal <Pagnination /> component.

# $frontmatterKey

if you create a Frontmatter Classifier as follows:

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    [
      '@vuepress/blog',
      {
        frontmatters: [
          {
            // Unique ID of current classification
            id: 'tag',
            // Decide that the frontmatter keys will be grouped under this classification
            keys: ['tag'],
            // Path of the `entry page` (or `list page`)
            path: '/tag/',
            // Layout of the `entry page`
            layout: 'Tag',
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  ],
}

Then this plugin will inject a $frontmatterKey object to the prototype of Vue, so you can use it directly at your layout component (<Tag />).

# $frontmatterKey.list

Get the list of matched frontmatter classifier types.

The interface is as follows:

type FrontmatterKeyList = Array<{
  name: string;
  path: string;
  pages: Array<VuePressPage>;
}>

You can re-read the Frontmatter Classifier to see the live example of tag.

Multiple Frontmatter Classifiers

If you create two frontmatter classifiers, e.g. tag and category, then in /tag/ route, the $frontmatterKey will automatically point to tag, while in /category/, it will point to category.

This variable is essentially designed to generalize the list page of frontmatter keys

# $service

# $service.comment

# $service.comment.enabled

Whether comment is enabled.

# $service.comment.service

Get the comment service

# $service.email

# $service.email.enabled

Whether email (newsletter) service is enabled.

# $service.feed

# $service.feed.rss

whether RSS feed is enabled.

# $service.feed.atom

whether Atom feed is enabled.

# $service.feed.json

whether JSON feed is enabled.