Nested Frontmatter

Render nested frontmatter arrays and objects inside the native Properties pane.

What it does

Scalar frontmatter values already read well, but nested objects and arrays often collapse into hard-to-read JSON-like blobs inside Properties. Nested Frontmatter makes those values readable by rendering them as structured rows while keeping the native Properties UI.

Current scope:

• Enhances nested object/array values that Obsidian renders as unknown properties
• Preserves Obsidian's existing property row layout and styling as much as possible
• Makes nested wikilinks navigable with a single click

What it does not do

• It does not create a new metadata editor
• It does not change your frontmatter data format
• It does not add vault-specific schemas or assumptions

Development

There is no bundling step. main.js is the source file Obsidian loads.

pnpm install
pnpm check
pnpm test

GitHub Actions

• CI runs typechecking and tests on every push and pull request.
• Release runs the same verification, packages main.js, manifest.json, and versions.json, and publishes a GitHub release when you push a v* tag such as v0.1.0.

Testing

The test suite covers:

• structured frontmatter parsing
• wikilink parsing
• DOM enhancement of unknown property rows
• single-click nested link navigation behavior
• regression protection against unnecessary rerender loops

Status

This plugin is intentionally narrow. The goal is to make nested frontmatter readable in the native Properties pane and do that one thing well.