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   Chris Coleman (chris@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 03:00:22 JST Chris Coleman

   Got an #eleventy question: I have a global data file that returns an array of images with a certain tag from Cloudinary.

   I have:

   • _data/photos.js (Cloudinary tag is here)

   • gallery.njk (loops trough photos.js to make a grid/links)

   • photo.njk (pagination and display of photos.js items)

   What’s the approach if I want to use #11ty data to specify the tag in a Markdown file, then pass it off to the other files to generate the pages? Right now I’m limited to the tag specified in photos.js.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 03:00:20 JST Eaton

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     @Chris AFAIK the best solution is still to build the mega-collection of global data, but filter it by that tag in the layout template, which has access to individual pages’ frontmatter data.

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     Chris Coleman (chris@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 03:00:22 JST Chris Coleman

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     To make it a little clearer, it’s not sustainable to have three files for each tag I want to get from Cloudinary if I want many galleries.

     Hypothetically, if this is my front matter…

     ---
     title: Photos of awesome dogs
     tag: dog
     layout: gallery.njk
     ---

     …how would I pass `dog` to a data file to get the photos, create the grid of results, paginate, etc.?

     This doesn’t seem *that* complicated for #eleventy, but there are a few ways of working with data, and I’m just not sure of the best approach.

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Sunday, 28-Jan-2024 05:40:28 JST Eaton

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     (Fwiw, most of my recent tinkering has been in the context of api driven 11ty sites where literally no content is in git-tracked files — i have… learned a lot of things about pagination and data cascades, lol)