Editing plaintext assets

[devurandom]

I am using https://11ty.dev and extended it to support generating SVGs from a plaintext file. This only works well when I place the source file under assets/, so that is what I did: assets/plain.txt => _site/assets/plain.svg. Since the source file is plaintext, I expected to be able to edit it using Sveltia CMS, but it is not even displayed in the UI clicking on the assets icon, which takes me to /admin/#/assets.

How can I edit plaintext files, that are located under assets/ in my source repository, with Sveltia CMS?

[kyoshino]

• I’ll make sure plaintext files will be displayed in the asset library. It’s just a bug, I guess.
• I’m planning to add a simple image editor to the asset library (cropping, resizing, etc.) but wasn’t thinking about plaintext files. Maybe it’s not difficult to add a simple text edtior. Will check!

[kyoshino]

I just tested with the 11ty starter template and looks like plaintext files appear in the asset library if configured properly. What I’ve changed:

Specify the assets folder in .eleventy.js:

eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("assets/"); 

And change the media_folder in admin/config.yml:

media_folder: "assets"

[devurandom]

Thanks for the hint! Moving the file to assets/img/ made it appear in Sveltia! Now the only thing missing is showing a text input box. :) If I have to add a value to an array of file extensions to show such input field for, that would work for me.

[devurandom]

As a workaround I added the text->SVG transformer as a Markdown "highlighter", which allows me to embed the text into a "page": https://codeberg.org/devurandom/eleventy-plugin-text-mapper/src/branch/main/index.js#L17-L26
This is following the example of another 11ty plugin that renders PlantUML in this way: https://github.com/awaragi/eleventy-plugin-plantuml

[kyoshino]

Finally! Just shipped v0.17.0 with a plaintext editor 📝