I am trying to optimise SEO on my site by ensuring that each page has a unique value for descriptive metatags.

I am trying to achieve this using the Token and Metatags modules, and am using Drupal 8.

To do this, I have added a field called “Description” to both the basic page and article content types.

I would then like to use the [node:field_description] token as the value for any relevant metatags in the Metatags module.

However, when I view available tokens in the Metatags module the [node] token is not available and the [current-page] token doesn’t appear to have any way to reference the main node displayed within that page.

I know this issue has been discussed extensively for D7 and this issue appears to provide what I’m looking for:

https://www.drupal.org/project/token/issues/919760

Is there an equivalent solution for D8? Alternatively, what’s the best way of achieving this?