How would you create a homepage with a list of posts?

[CaldwellYSR]

I'm trying to make a site where there's a home page that is a list of posts and then the show page for the individual posts. From reading through the docs I assumed it would look like

  collections: %{
    posts: %{
      permalink: "/",
      list_layout: "home",
      show_layout: "show"
    }
  }

but then in the home.html.eex layout there is no @collection_values assigns. I might be missing something obvious here but so far I'm just confused.

[goncalotomas]

Hey! Thanks for giving Griffin a try.

I see a couple of issues, the most pressing of which is the fact that collections currently doesn't seem to support permalink:

griffin/lib/mix/tasks/grf.build.ex

Lines 613 to 626 in 455c688

	render_collection_file(
	opts.output <> "/#{collection_name}/index.html",
	%{
	page: nil,
	data: %{
	layout: EEx.compile_string(Layouts.fallback_list_collection_layout()),
	collection_name: collection_name,
	collection_values: collection_values
	},
	content: "",
	input: "tags_list.eex"
	},
	opts
	)

I also hadn't considered the possibility of setting the collection permalinks to the root directory, it shouldn't be an issue but it's something I just haven't tested yet.

Collections is going to undergo a bit of a revamp through #10, what I can do is prioritize finishing that during this week and then testing your set up and making sure it works. This probably isn't the answer you were expecting, sorry about that!

[CaldwellYSR]

Nothing to apologize for! Happy to get a transparent response. I didn't do much looking through your actual code I was simply trying this out by going through the docs and I got stuck and moved on. When I get some time I will actually dig through the code a bit and see if I can offer up a PR because the project is exciting to me.

[maikelthedev]

Is there at the moment any way shape or form to create a blog with a list of pages?

As I understand it collections is not suitable for this. Am I missing something in the docs for 0.3.0 to do this bit?

[goncalotomas]

You can build this naively by listing pages individually under a home page, but this isn't something I'd recommend.
My idea with collections was to provide a way to group and list pages, so yes, it should be possible to build something like this with collections.

I'll allocate some time this week to work on merging #10 and working on new repos under elixir-griffin that demo how to build a blog with individual posts with tags. As a stretch goal I'll see if I can improve the collections docs so that it's clear what you can use them for.