Document renderData feature.

[zachleat]

Related: 11ty/eleventy#216 11ty/eleventy#236

More info at 11ty/eleventy-base-blog#15

[zachleat]

also 11ty/eleventy#315 and maybe 11ty/eleventy#329 ?

[zachleat]

I’ve been reluctant to document this as I think a better idea for this will crop up and I’m waiting for inspiration 😇

[LandonSchropp]

@zachleat Is there any update on this? I'm working on a simple notes site and I'm trying to set up a standard description in my note.njk layout file.

layout: layouts/default.njk
description: These are my personal notes on {{ title }} by {{ author }}.

I tried a few different variables of renderData and I could see the values, but I couldn't get any variables to render.

layout: layouts/default.njk
renderData:
  description: These are my personal notes on {{ title }} by {{ author }}.

[LandonSchropp]

I’ve been reluctant to document this as I think a better idea for this will crop up and I’m waiting for inspiration 😇

This is just my 2¢, but would anything really bad happen if you just turned on interpolation by default in the front matter. Is anyone really including curlys in those values that they don't want to be interpolated?

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me like the easiest thing would be to turn interpolation on by default and allow people to escape {{}}'s if they don't want that behavior.

[paulshryock]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me like the easiest thing would be to turn interpolation on by default and allow people to escape {{}}'s if they don't want that behavior.

I second this.

Although maybe a non-breaking change (if any hypothetical person was already using curly braces as content in front matter) would be an option in the Eleventy config file, which is disabled by default?

[danfascia]

This would be really useful so I will third it!

[braco]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me like the easiest thing would be to turn interpolation on by default and allow people to escape {{}}'s if they don't want that behavior.

There's no way to get a dynamic, data driven title from pagination right now? That's... a surprisingly large missing feature

[LandonSchropp]

@braco I managed it like this, but I wish there was a better way:

{% set title = title or pagination.items[0].title %}

[zachleat]

Closing this in lieu of new Computed Data feature. Follow along at 11ty/eleventy#481

[openmindculture]

{% set title = title or pagination.items[0].title %}

@LandonSchropp @braco @zachleat Where to put this code to make it actually override the front matter definition?
I have

---
permalink: "auditees/{{ auditee.title | slug }}/"
title: {{ auditee.title }}
---
{% set title = auditee.title %}

still the rendered page title is {{ auditee.title }} without any interpolation.