I've just started playing with this integration today and I'm running into a bit of a

Yeah, they actually support saving to a bunch of formats! <a href="https://www.netlify

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delucis commented on May 26, 2024

Creating a collection for global/page-specific settings

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delucis commented on May 26, 2024

My go-to for this is usually to store these as JSON as those are very easily imported into your Astro project.

Here’s a minimal example that stores title and showAuthorNames values in src/settings/general.json:

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import NetlifyCMS from 'astro-netlify-cms';

export default defineConfig({
  integrations: [
    NetlifyCMS({
      config: {
        backend: {
          name: 'git-gateway',
          branch: 'main',
        },
        collections: [
          {
            name: 'settings',
            label: 'Site Settings',
            files: [
              {
                name: 'general',
                label: 'General',
                file: 'src/settings/general.json',
                fields: [
                  {
                    name: 'title',
                    widget: 'string',
                    label: 'Site Title',
                  },
                  {
                    name: 'showAuthorNames',
                    widget: 'boolean',
                    label: 'Show author names on landing page',
                  },
                ],
              },
            ],
          },
        ],
      },
    }),
  ],
});

Then in your Astro pages you can import this file and use its data:

---
// src/pages/index.astro

import { title, showAuthorNames } from '../settings/general.json';
---

<h1>{title}</h1>

{showAuthorNames && 'Toni Morrison'}

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samhenrigold commented on May 26, 2024

Ah I didn't know Netlify can write to JSON, amazing! I'll give it a shot

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delucis commented on May 26, 2024

Yeah, they actually support saving to a bunch of formats! https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/configuration-options/#extension-and-format

I'll close this for now as I don't think there's anything more that needs doing in this repo but feel free to ask any other questions if you run into issues.

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