Allow us to prefix Directory Data Files with an underscore

[mattwaler]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In large folders full of lots of MD files, having to mimic the directory name exactly causes the config file to get lost among the MD files. See screenshot:

Describe the solution you'd like

Allowing us to prefix the Directory Data File with an underscore, it would sort to the top of the folder, allowing for easy identification and separation from the content files. Something like this:

Describe alternatives you've considered

No other solutions come to mind.

Additional context

I love 11ty!

[mattwaler]

@zachleat Any possibility for this being implemented? I might be able to take a crack myself!

[ithinkihaveacat]

Requiring the *.11tydata.js to match the directory name also means that renaming the directory also requires renaming the file as well, which easy to miss and annoyingly to do. Using and underscore and also using the same name (e.g. _index.11tydata.js might be better.

[mattwaler]

That's not a bad idea @ithinkihaveacat, I didn't think about that.

Maybe a happy medium would be combining the _ and the jsDataFileSuffix config value to create this, so the file would be /dir/_11tydata.js, and could be customized.

Not sure if that's possible though!

[zachleat]

I believe #1699 is related to this.

I don’t think we want to add additional magic here but #1699 might be a nice configurable way out!

[zachleat]

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