Computing Entry Object Values in Astro

Computing Entry Object Values in Astro

Issue

When building the vocabulary collection in Astro, entries were missing required properties (title, slug, aliases) in their data objects, causing build failures.

Resolution Path

  1. First attempted to fix in content.config.ts transform function
  2. Discovered the transform wasn't being called correctly
  3. Restored working commit 2aff6b338cac to get back to stable state
  4. Identified that getStaticPaths in [vocabulary].astro needed to handle data properties
  5. Modified getStaticPaths to properly compute and assign:
    • title (in title case from filename)
    • slug (in kebab-case from filename)
    • aliases (defaulting to empty array)

Key Changes

typescript 
// Create a new entry with updated data
const updatedEntry = {
  ...entry,
  data: {
    ...entry.data,
    title,
    slug,
    aliases: entry.data.aliases || []
  }
};

Verification

  • Build succeeded with pnpm build
  • Logs showed entries had proper properties:
text 
Entry: {
  id: 'workflow-automations',
  title: 'Workflow Automations',
  slug: 'workflow-automations'
}
  • src/pages/more-about/[vocabulary].astro
  • src/content.config.ts

Git Commit

text 
works(entry): entry object now getting the right properties assigned to data object