azangru / eleventy-blog-bugs-repro

This repository is a simple reproduction case for several Eleventy bugs.

Structure

The repository contains a blog directory with two dummy articles, both inside of the 2023 directory:

src/
├─ blog/
│  ├─ 2023/
│  │  ├─ article-one/
│  │  │  ├─ index.md
|  |  |  ├─ img.avif
|  |  |  ├─ styles.css
│  │  ├─ article-two/
│  │  │  ├─ index.md

The desired outcome is that:

• Asset files for an article are located in the same directory as the article file itself
• The url should combine the year with the directory name of the article; I do not need the year to be a full directory in the pathname. Example: /blog/2023/article-one/ should become /blog/2023-article-one

To this effect, relevant settings have been set in the .eleventy.js file. See this discussion for more details.

The setup partly works; however, there are several problems.

Observed Problems

• If Eleventy server is started with the --ignore-initial option (e.g. using the eleventy --ignore-initial --incremental --serve command), then the /blog page will not show the list of blog articles. It seems that the --ignore-initial option prevents the collections.blogArticles in blog.njk file from getting the full list of articles.
• The passthrough copy emulation (enabled with eleventyConfig.setServerPassthroughCopyBehavior("passthrough");) does not seem to work. The default behavior, which is copy, works correctly
• Eleventy does not detect changes in passthrough files. For example, updating the src/blog/2023/article-one/styles.css file while Eleventy server is running does not re-copy this file.
• If I add a pathPrefix to eleventyConfig, the dev sever redirects to a page without the prefix if the url does not contain a trailing slash. For example:
  • No prefix set in the config; url /blog/2023-article-one/ (with a trailing slash) shows a page correctly
  • No prefix set in the config; url /blog/2023-article-one (without a trailing slash) redirects to /blog/2023-article-one/ and shows a page correctly
  • Prefix set in the config; url /prefix/blog/2023-article-one/ (with a trailing slash) shows a page correctly
  • (BUG) Prefix set in the config; url /prefix/blog/2023-article-one (without a trailing slash) redirects to /blog/2023-article-one/ (prefix lost), and shows a 404 page