Astro notes

Search a collection for a given set

const findBlogEntries = await getCollection("blog", ({ data }) => {
  return data.title == "Toast notifications for .NET 6+ Windows apps";
});

Get last four more recent posts

const top4 = posts
  .sort((a, b) => a.data.dateAdded.valueOf() - b.data.dateAdded.valueOf())
  //.slice(0,4)
  .map(function (item) {
    return {
      title: item.data.title,
      date: item.data.dateAdded,
      tags: item.data.tags,
      abstract: item.data.abstract,
    };
  });

Get posts with glob

  const allPosts = await Astro.glob('../../posts/*.md');

dynamic urls

First page is blah the /1 is assumed

[...page].astro

First page is blah/1 the /1 needs to be explicit

[page].astro

c# tag causes error on npm run build

Should # in tags (or anywhere else, really) be converted to the entity for # which is #

Embedding an Astro property into an HTML value attribute

Use a JavaScript template literal as shown below.

href={`tags/${tag.name}`}

If tag.name is astro, the result is:

href="tags/astro"

Astro implicitly adds the double quotes around the template literal.