Specify default global data object for template?

[clhenrick]

Hi,

I'm wondering how I would map data objects from a global data directory to individual templates, without namespacing them.

For example, one.json, two.json, and three.json live in the _data global data directory. In the content templates directory I have one.hbs, two.hbs, and three.hbs. So the properties of one.json should be inherited by one.hbs, two.json should be inherited by two.hbs, and so on.

From what I can tell, I can do this with an 11tydata.js file for each template file (e.g. one.11tydata.js for one.hbs, and two.11tydata.js for two.hbs, etc), but I'm trying to avoid redundancy and have a single 11tydata.js file for the entire templates directory. I've looked into using computed data but I still end up with data being namespaced for each template (e.g. one.hbs has to access one.json via one.someProp instead of just someProp). Within the templates I would prefer to not have the [data].json properties name spaced and have to access the JSON properties like one.propA, one.propB, etc. Instead I want to be able to reference the properties like propA, propB, etc. from the one.json file within one.hbs template.

For more context I'm working on adding i18n to a site and have a bunch of locales JSON files, where each locale file maps to a specific page (one.json maps to one.html), but I have multiple locales for each language (e.g. one-en.json, two-es.json, three-zh.json). So my templates directory is set up as content/en/[page].hbs, content/es/[page].hbs, etc. My goal is to use the same layout for each page and pass that layout the correct locale so that I avoid writing the same markup for each page in en/, es/, and zh/.

Any suggestions or examples would be appreciated, thanks!