Eleventy Plugin Collection Schemas

Overview

The Eleventy Plugin: Collection Schemas is a powerful tool designed for developers looking to enforce stricter data integrity within their Eleventy collections. With this plugin, you can define unique schemas for each collection, ensuring that your templates utilize well-structured and type-safe frontmatter. Not only does this enhance the maintainability of your code, but it also provides helpful feedback during development and build processes, allowing you to catch errors early.

By leveraging the capabilities of this plugin, you can take advantage of real-time feedback for incorrectly typed, missing, or misplaced custom data keys. This feature is particularly beneficial when working with larger projects where data integrity is crucial. In essence, this plugin is all about enhancing the workflow and preventing common mistakes in template data definitions.

Features

• Typed Frontmatter Schema: Enforce a structured schema for templates within Eleventy collections, enhancing type safety and data consistency.
• Comprehensive Error Reporting: Receive detailed terminal output during development and builds for missing or invalid keys, helping you quickly identify issues.
• Custom Data Extension: Works with a custom data extension (default: .meta), similar to directory data files, for improved organization and clarity.
• Schema Format Flexibility: Allows you to define schemas in a JSON format, specifying types and required keys tailored to your project needs.
• Configurable Key Definitions: Customize the key used to define data within your templates and the file extension for schemas, ensuring compatibility with your workflow.
• Supports Collection-Specific Schemas: Create unique schemas for different collections, enabling targeted enforcement of data integrity across diverse segments of your project.
• Integration with Directory Data Files: Utilize directory data files to enhance permalinks and streamline the organization of your templates.
• Limitations Awareness: Helps you stay informed about schema limitations, such as the one-level restriction for schema data, thus aligning expectations with functionality.