diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 11b5e08089725f3e3ff0d1bc2eb91068c19ce595..648712d1c2bdb38e2f2e1e34e4cefa87785b7170 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
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                 "type": "path",
                 "url": "core",
-                "reference": "5bd6798a64831fa08a343a14a0ee47127c4cb99f"
+                "reference": "deeb3ec5ad5b0a9b0aa65505ab74e2bde5255abd"
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diff --git a/core/composer.json b/core/composer.json
index cf64c7800f29937880880b23c90595fba0a6c4b8..513b4b317bbcbf27c720d98fc7821d891a937ba5 100644
--- a/core/composer.json
+++ b/core/composer.json
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
         "drupal/core-file-cache": "self.version",
         "drupal/core-file-security": "self.version",
         "drupal/core-filesystem": "self.version",
+        "drupal/core-front-matter": "self.version",
         "drupal/core-gettext": "self.version",
         "drupal/core-graph": "self.version",
         "drupal/core-http-foundation": "self.version",
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/Exception/FrontMatterParseException.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/Exception/FrontMatterParseException.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6296f043d45341216713895b744485504471eec6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/Exception/FrontMatterParseException.php
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception;
+
+use Drupal\Component\Serialization\Exception\InvalidDataTypeException;
+
+/**
+ * Defines a class for front matter parsing exceptions.
+ */
+class FrontMatterParseException extends InvalidDataTypeException {
+
+  /**
+   * The line number of where the parse error occurred.
+   *
+   * This line number is in relation to where the parse error occurred in the
+   * source front matter content. It is different from \Exception::getLine()
+   * which is populated with the line number of where this exception was
+   * thrown in PHP.
+   *
+   * @var int
+   */
+  protected $sourceLine;
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs a new FrontMatterParseException instance.
+   *
+   * @param \Drupal\Component\Serialization\Exception\InvalidDataTypeException $exception
+   *   The exception thrown when attempting to parse front matter data.
+   */
+  public function __construct(InvalidDataTypeException $exception) {
+    $this->sourceLine = 1;
+
+    // Attempt to extract the line number from the serializer error. This isn't
+    // a very stable way to do this, however it is the only way given that
+    // \Drupal\Component\Serialization\SerializationInterface does not have
+    // methods for accessing this kind of information reliably.
+    $message = 'An error occurred when attempting to parse front matter data';
+    if ($exception) {
+      preg_match('/line:?\s?(\d+)/i', $exception->getMessage(), $matches);
+      if (!empty($matches[1])) {
+        $message .= ' on line %d';
+        // Add any matching line count to the existing source line so it
+        // increases it by 1 to account for the front matter separator (---).
+        $this->sourceLine += (int) $matches[1];
+      }
+    }
+    parent::__construct(sprintf($message, $this->sourceLine), 0, $exception);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves the line number where the parse error occurred.
+   *
+   * This line number is in relation to where the parse error occurred in the
+   * source front matter content. It is different from \Exception::getLine()
+   * which is populated with the line number of where this exception was
+   * thrown in PHP.
+   *
+   * @return int
+   *   The source line number.
+   */
+  public function getSourceLine(): int {
+    return $this->sourceLine;
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/FrontMatter.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/FrontMatter.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f09396203b8e1bb2a38387f4c2332746546eaf46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/FrontMatter.php
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Component\FrontMatter;
+
+use Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException;
+use Drupal\Component\Serialization\Exception\InvalidDataTypeException;
+use Drupal\Component\Serialization\SerializationInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Component for parsing front matter from a source.
+ *
+ * This component allows for an easy and convenient way to parse
+ * @link https://jekyllrb.com/docs/front-matter/ front matter @endlink
+ * from a source.
+ *
+ * Front matter is used as a way to provide additional static data associated
+ * with a source without affecting the contents of the source. Typically this
+ * is used in templates to denote special handling or categorization.
+ *
+ * Front matter must be the first thing in the source and must take the form of
+ * valid YAML set in between triple-hyphen lines:
+ *
+ * source.md:
+ * @code
+ * ---
+ * important: true
+ * ---
+ * My content
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * example.php:
+ * @code
+ * use Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\FrontMatter;
+ *
+ * $frontMatter = FrontMatter::create(file_get_contents('source.md'));
+ * $data = $frontMatter->getData(); // ['important' => TRUE]
+ * $content = $frontMatter->getContent(); // 'My content'
+ * $line => $frontMatter->getLine(); // 4, line where content actually starts.
+ * @endcode
+ *
+ * @ingroup utility
+ */
+class FrontMatter {
+
+  /**
+   * The separator used to indicate front matter data.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  const SEPARATOR = '---';
+
+  /**
+   * The regular expression used to extract the YAML front matter content.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  const REGEXP = '/\A(' . self::SEPARATOR . '(.*?)?\R' . self::SEPARATOR . ')(\R.*)?\Z/s';
+
+  /**
+   * The parsed source.
+   *
+   * @var array
+   */
+  protected $parsed;
+
+  /**
+   * A serializer.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  protected $serializer;
+
+  /**
+   * The source.
+   *
+   * @var string
+   */
+  protected $source;
+
+  /**
+   * FrontMatter constructor.
+   *
+   * @param string $source
+   *   A string source.
+   * @param string $serializer
+   *   The name of a class that implements
+   *   \Drupal\Component\Serialization\SerializationInterface.
+   */
+  public function __construct(string $source, string $serializer = '\Drupal\Component\Serialization\Yaml') {
+    assert(is_subclass_of($serializer, SerializationInterface::class), sprintf('The $serializer parameter must reference a class that implements %s.', SerializationInterface::class));
+    $this->serializer = $serializer;
+    $this->source = $source;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a new FrontMatter instance.
+   *
+   * @param string $source
+   *   A string source.
+   * @param string $serializer
+   *   The name of a class that implements
+   *   \Drupal\Component\Serialization\SerializationInterface.
+   *
+   * @return static
+   */
+  public static function create(string $source, string $serializer = '\Drupal\Component\Serialization\Yaml') {
+    return new static($source, $serializer);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Parses the source.
+   *
+   * @return array
+   *   An associative array containing:
+   *   - content: The real content.
+   *   - data: The front matter data extracted and decoded.
+   *   - line: The line number where the real content starts.
+   *
+   * @throws \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException
+   */
+  protected function parse(): array {
+    if (!$this->parsed) {
+      $content = $this->source;
+      $data = [];
+      $line = 1;
+
+      // Parse front matter data.
+      if (preg_match(static::REGEXP, $content, $matches)) {
+        // Extract the source content.
+        $content = !empty($matches[3]) ? trim($matches[3]) : '';
+
+        // Extract the front matter data and typecast to an array to ensure
+        // top level scalars are in an array.
+        $raw = !empty($matches[2]) ? trim($matches[2]) : '';
+        if ($raw) {
+          try {
+            $data = (array) $this->serializer::decode($raw);
+          }
+          catch (InvalidDataTypeException $exception) {
+            // Rethrow a specific front matter parse exception.
+            throw new FrontMatterParseException($exception);
+          }
+        }
+
+        // Determine the real source line by counting all newlines in the first
+        // match (which includes the front matter separators) and append a new
+        // line to denote that the content should start after it.
+        if (!empty($matches[1])) {
+          $line += preg_match_all('/\R/', $matches[1] . "\n");
+        }
+      }
+
+      // Set the parsed data.
+      $this->parsed = [
+        'content' => $content,
+        'data' => $data,
+        'line' => $line,
+      ];
+    }
+
+    return $this->parsed;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves the extracted source content.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The extracted source content.
+   *
+   * @throws \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException
+   */
+  public function getContent(): string {
+    return $this->parse()['content'];
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves the extracted front matter data.
+   *
+   * @return array
+   *   The extracted front matter data.
+   *
+   * @throws \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException
+   */
+  public function getData(): array {
+    return $this->parse()['data'];
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Retrieves the line where the source content starts, after any data.
+   *
+   * @return int
+   *   The source content line.
+   *
+   * @throws \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException
+   */
+  public function getLine(): int {
+    return $this->parse()['line'];
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/LICENSE.txt b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/LICENSE.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..94fb84639c4b6ff359e47a124d8fb4a3aba7a386
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/LICENSE.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
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+
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+  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
+
+  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
+  Ty Coon, President of Vice
+
+This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
+proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
+consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
+library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
+Public License instead of this License.
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/README.txt b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/README.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aad859e6d1b5d4cc224002f9cd5d5c339dc35535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/README.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+The Drupal FrontMatter Component
+
+Thanks for using this Drupal component.
+
+You can participate in its development on Drupal.org, through our issue system:
+https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal
+
+You can get the full Drupal repo here:
+https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/git-instructions
+
+You can browse the full Drupal repo here:
+https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/TESTING.txt b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/TESTING.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36229d13df90703939124def89d54f93bf27bd13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/TESTING.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+HOW-TO: Test this Drupal component
+
+In order to test this component, you'll need to get the entire Drupal repo and
+run the tests there.
+
+You'll find the tests under core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component.
+
+You can get the full Drupal repo here:
+https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/git-instructions
+
+You can find more information about running PHPUnit tests with Drupal here:
+https://www.drupal.org/node/2116263
+
+Each component in the Drupal\Component namespace has its own annotated test
+group. You can use this group to run only the tests for this component. Like
+this:
+
+$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --group FrontMatter
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/composer.json b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/composer.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..15a0b081eca144f172fcac43a20a97a145b91c3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FrontMatter/composer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "name": "drupal/core-front-matter",
+  "description": "Component for parsing front matter from a source.",
+  "keywords": ["drupal"],
+  "homepage": "https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal",
+  "license": "GPL-2.0-or-later",
+  "require": {
+    "php": ">=7.3.0",
+    "drupal/core-serialization": "^8.8"
+  },
+  "autoload": {
+    "psr-4": {
+      "Drupal\\Component\\FrontMatter\\": ""
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/theme.api.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/theme.api.php
index 082f139f3c92d95790f68c685b77c2e647618c3b..12f485394c51dc5dc438e70b5525c48b7dace0c0 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/theme.api.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Render/theme.api.php
@@ -200,6 +200,15 @@
  *   }
  *   @endcode
  *
+ * @section front_matter Front Matter
+ * Twig has been extended in Drupal to provide an easy way to parse front
+ * matter from template files. See \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\FrontMatter
+ * for more information:
+ * @code
+ * $metadata = \Drupal::service('twig')->getTemplateMetadata('/path/to/template.html.twig');
+ * @endcode
+ * Note: all front matter is stripped from templates prior to rendering.
+ *
  * @see hooks
  * @see callbacks
  * @see theme_render
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/TwigEnvironment.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/TwigEnvironment.php
index 61dd220e0a39945f2bfd7a10fa6e274a54037e32..34df39f099cd8be608eee5a69a826e0f3ffe5c41 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/TwigEnvironment.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Template/TwigEnvironment.php
@@ -2,13 +2,18 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\Core\Template;
 
+use Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException;
+use Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\FrontMatter;
 use Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface;
 use Drupal\Core\PhpStorage\PhpStorageFactory;
 use Drupal\Core\Render\Markup;
+use Drupal\Core\Serialization\Yaml;
 use Drupal\Core\State\StateInterface;
 use Twig\Environment;
+use Twig\Error\SyntaxError;
 use Twig\Extension\SandboxExtension;
 use Twig\Loader\LoaderInterface;
+use Twig\Source;
 
 /**
  * A class that defines a Twig environment for Drupal.
@@ -97,6 +102,36 @@ public function __construct($root, CacheBackendInterface $cache, $twig_extension
     $this->addExtension($sandbox);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function compileSource(Source $source) {
+    // Note: always use \Drupal\Core\Serialization\Yaml here instead of the
+    // "serializer.yaml" service. This allows the core serializer to utilize
+    // core related functionality which isn't available as the standalone
+    // component based serializer.
+    $frontMatter = FrontMatter::create($source->getCode(), Yaml::class);
+
+    // Reconstruct the source if there is front matter data detected. Prepend
+    // the source with {% line \d+ %} to inform Twig that the source code
+    // actually starts on a different line past the front matter data. This is
+    // particularly useful when used in error reporting.
+    try {
+      if (($line = $frontMatter->getLine()) > 1) {
+        $content = "{% line $line %}" . $frontMatter->getContent();
+        $source = new Source($content, $source->getName(), $source->getPath());
+      }
+    }
+    catch (FrontMatterParseException $exception) {
+      // Convert parse exception into a syntax exception for Twig and append
+      // the path/name of the source to help further identify where it occurred.
+      $message = sprintf($exception->getMessage() . ' in %s', $source->getPath() ?: $source->getName());
+      throw new SyntaxError($message, $exception->getSourceLine(), $source, $exception);
+    }
+
+    return parent::compileSource($source);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Invalidates all compiled Twig templates.
    *
@@ -118,6 +153,37 @@ public function getTwigCachePrefix() {
     return $this->twigCachePrefix;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Retrieves metadata associated with a template.
+   *
+   * @param string $name
+   *   The name for which to calculate the template class name.
+   *
+   * @return array
+   *   The template metadata, if any.
+   *
+   * @throws \Twig\Error\LoaderError
+   * @throws \Twig\Error\SyntaxError
+   */
+  public function getTemplateMetadata(string $name): array {
+    $loader = $this->getLoader();
+    $source = $loader->getSourceContext($name);
+
+    // Note: always use \Drupal\Core\Serialization\Yaml here instead of the
+    // "serializer.yaml" service. This allows the core serializer to utilize
+    // core related functionality which isn't available as the standalone
+    // component based serializer.
+    try {
+      return FrontMatter::create($source->getCode(), Yaml::class)->getData();
+    }
+    catch (FrontMatterParseException $exception) {
+      // Convert parse exception into a syntax exception for Twig and append
+      // the path/name of the source to help further identify where it occurred.
+      $message = sprintf($exception->getMessage() . ' in %s', $source->getPath() ?: $source->getName());
+      throw new SyntaxError($message, $exception->getSourceLine(), $source, $exception);
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Gets the template class associated with the given string.
    *
diff --git a/core/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Theme/FrontMatterTest.php b/core/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Theme/FrontMatterTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f902547dceb2168d9984ff7c7808d8c60dbae119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/tests/Drupal/KernelTests/Core/Theme/FrontMatterTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\KernelTests\Core\Theme;
+
+use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
+use Drupal\KernelTests\KernelTestBase;
+use Drupal\Tests\Component\FrontMatter\FrontMatterTest as ComponentFrontMatterTest;
+use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition;
+use Twig\Error\Error;
+use Twig\Error\SyntaxError;
+
+/**
+ * Tests Twig front matter support.
+ *
+ * @covers \Drupal\Core\Template\Loader\FrontMatterLoaderDecorator
+ * @covers \Drupal\Core\Template\FrontMatterSourceDecorator
+ * @group Twig
+ */
+class FrontMatterTest extends KernelTestBase {
+
+  /**
+   * A broken source.
+   */
+  const BROKEN_SOURCE = '<div>Hello {{ world</div>';
+
+  /**
+   * Twig service.
+   *
+   * @var \Drupal\Core\Template\TwigEnvironment
+   */
+  protected $twig;
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  protected function setUp(): void {
+    parent::setUp();
+    $this->twig = \Drupal::service('twig');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * {@inheritdoc}
+   */
+  public function register(ContainerBuilder $container) {
+    parent::register($container);
+
+    $container->setDefinition('twig_loader__file_system', new Definition('Twig_Loader_Filesystem', [[sys_get_temp_dir()]]))
+      ->addTag('twig.loader');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a new temporary Twig file.
+   *
+   * @param string $content
+   *   The contents of the Twig file to save.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The absolute path to the temporary file.
+   */
+  protected function createTwigTemplate(string $content = ''): string {
+    $file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'twig') . ".html.twig";
+    file_put_contents($file, $content);
+    return $file;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Tests broken front matter.
+   *
+   * @covers \Drupal\Core\Template\TwigEnvironment::getTemplateMetadata
+   * @covers \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException
+   */
+  public function testFrontMatterBroken() {
+    $source = "---\ncollection:\n-  key: foo\n  foo: bar\n---\n" . ComponentFrontMatterTest::SOURCE;
+    $file = $this->createTwigTemplate($source);
+    $this->expectException(SyntaxError::class);
+    $this->expectExceptionMessage('An error occurred when attempting to parse front matter data on line 4 in ' . $file);
+    $this->twig->getTemplateMetadata(basename($file));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Test Twig template front matter.
+   *
+   * @param array|null $yaml
+   *   The YAML used for metadata in a Twig template.
+   * @param int $line
+   *   The expected line number where the source code starts.
+   * @param string $content
+   *   The content to use for testing purposes.
+   *
+   * @covers \Drupal\Core\Template\TwigEnvironment::compileSource
+   * @covers \Drupal\Core\Template\TwigEnvironment::getTemplateMetadata
+   *
+   * @dataProvider \Drupal\Tests\Component\FrontMatter\FrontMatterTest::providerFrontMatterData
+   */
+  public function testFrontMatter($yaml, $line, $content = ComponentFrontMatterTest::SOURCE) {
+    // Create a temporary Twig template.
+    $source = ComponentFrontMatterTest::createFrontMatterSource($yaml, $content);
+    $file = $this->createTwigTemplate($source);
+    $name = basename($file);
+
+    // Ensure the proper metadata is returned.
+    $metadata = $this->twig->getTemplateMetadata($name);
+    $this->assertEquals($yaml === NULL ? [] : $yaml, $metadata);
+
+    // Ensure the metadata is never rendered.
+    $output = $this->twig->load($name)->render();
+    $this->assertEquals($content, $output);
+
+    // Create a temporary Twig template.
+    $source = ComponentFrontMatterTest::createFrontMatterSource($yaml, static::BROKEN_SOURCE);
+    $file = $this->createTwigTemplate($source);
+    $name = basename($file);
+
+    try {
+      $this->twig->load($name);
+    }
+    catch (Error $error) {
+      $this->assertEquals($line, $error->getTemplateLine());
+    }
+
+    // Ensure string based templates work too.
+    try {
+      $this->twig->createTemplate($source)->render();
+    }
+    catch (Error $error) {
+      $this->assertEquals($line, $error->getTemplateLine());
+    }
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component/FrontMatter/FrontMatterTest.php b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component/FrontMatter/FrontMatterTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3e6a27aabf1dd113853abe65269ae8741ed521cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component/FrontMatter/FrontMatterTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Tests\Component\FrontMatter;
+
+use Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException;
+use Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\FrontMatter;
+use Drupal\Component\Serialization\Yaml;
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+
+/**
+ * Tests front matter parsing helper methods.
+ *
+ * @group FrontMatter
+ *
+ * @coversDefaultClass \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\FrontMatter
+ */
+class FrontMatterTest extends TestCase {
+
+  /**
+   * A basic source string.
+   */
+  const SOURCE = '<div>Hello world</div>';
+
+  /**
+   * Creates a front matter source string.
+   *
+   * @param array|null $yaml
+   *   The YAML array to prepend as a front matter block.
+   * @param string $content
+   *   The source contents.
+   *
+   * @return string
+   *   The new source.
+   */
+  public static function createFrontMatterSource(?array $yaml, string $content = self::SOURCE): string {
+    // Encode YAML and wrap in a front matter block.
+    $frontMatter = '';
+    if (is_array($yaml)) {
+      $yaml = $yaml ? trim(Yaml::encode($yaml)) . "\n" : '';
+      $frontMatter = FrontMatter::SEPARATOR . "\n$yaml" . FrontMatter::SEPARATOR . "\n";
+    }
+    return $frontMatter . $content;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Tests when a passed serializer doesn't implement the proper interface.
+   *
+   * @covers ::__construct
+   * @covers ::create
+   */
+  public function testFrontMatterSerializerException() {
+    $this->expectException(\AssertionError::class);
+    $this->expectExceptionMessage('The $serializer parameter must reference a class that implements Drupal\Component\Serialization\SerializationInterface.');
+    FrontMatter::create('', '');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Tests broken front matter.
+   *
+   * @covers ::__construct
+   * @covers ::create
+   * @covers ::parse
+   * @covers \Drupal\Component\FrontMatter\Exception\FrontMatterParseException
+   */
+  public function testFrontMatterBroken() {
+    $this->expectException(FrontMatterParseException::class);
+    $this->expectExceptionMessage('An error occurred when attempting to parse front matter data on line 4');
+    $source = "---\ncollection:\n-  key: foo\n  foo: bar\n---\n";
+    FrontMatter::create($source)->getData();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Tests the parsed data from front matter.
+   *
+   * @param array|null $yaml
+   *   The YAML used as front matter data to prepend the source.
+   * @param int $line
+   *   The expected line number where the source code starts.
+   * @param string $content
+   *   The content to use for testing purposes.
+   *
+   * @covers ::__construct
+   * @covers ::getContent
+   * @covers ::getData
+   * @covers ::getLine
+   * @covers ::create
+   * @covers ::parse
+   *
+   * @dataProvider providerFrontMatterData
+   */
+  public function testFrontMatterData($yaml, $line, $content = self::SOURCE) {
+    $source = static::createFrontMatterSource($yaml, $content);
+    $frontMatter = FrontMatter::create($source);
+    $this->assertEquals($content, $frontMatter->getContent());
+    $this->assertEquals($yaml === NULL ? [] : $yaml, $frontMatter->getData());
+    $this->assertEquals($line, $frontMatter->getLine());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Provides the front matter data to test.
+   *
+   * @return array
+   *   Array of front matter data.
+   */
+  public static function providerFrontMatterData() {
+    $data['none'] = [
+      'yaml' => NULL,
+      'line' => 1,
+    ];
+    $data['scalar'] = [
+      'yaml' => [
+        'string' => 'value',
+        'number' => 42,
+        'bool' => TRUE,
+        'null' => NULL,
+      ],
+      'line' => 7,
+    ];
+    $data['indexed_arrays'] = [
+      'yaml' => [
+        'brackets' => [1, 2, 3],
+        'items' => [
+          'item1',
+          'item2',
+          'item3',
+        ],
+      ],
+      'line' => 11,
+    ];
+    $data['associative_arrays'] = [
+      'yaml' => [
+        'brackets' => [
+          'a' => 1,
+          'b' => 2,
+          'c' => 3,
+        ],
+        'items' => [
+          'a' => 'item1',
+          'b' => 'item2',
+          'c' => 'item3',
+        ],
+      ],
+      'line' => 11,
+    ];
+    $data['empty_data'] = [
+      'yaml' => [],
+      'line' => 3,
+    ];
+    $data['empty_content'] = [
+      'yaml' => ['key' => 'value'],
+      'line' => 4,
+      'content' => '',
+    ];
+    $data['empty_data_and_content'] = [
+      'yaml' => [],
+      'line' => 3,
+      'content' => '',
+    ];
+    $data['empty_string'] = [
+      'yaml' => NULL,
+      'line' => 1,
+      'content' => '',
+    ];
+    $data['multiple_separators'] = [
+      'yaml' => ['key' => '---'],
+      'line' => 4,
+      'content' => "Something\n---\nSomething more",
+    ];
+    return $data;
+  }
+
+}