Eleventy collections do not implicitly add date field to pages for collections to be sorted by Sortable.js

[siddhantyadav]

Describe the bug
When I am adding two or more pages to Collections in Eleventy, there is a "Cannot read property 'getTime' of undefined" because there no date field automatically added through the collection which can be used by it inside Sortable.js and hence causing an error.

To Reproduce

1. Use the below data set for building multiple eleventy pages using any .njk file, add all the pages to the collection through addAllPagesToCollections = true

let data = [
{
name: 'abc'
},
{
name:'xyz'
}
]

Expected behavior
The pages should be built and all the pages can be added to the collection.

Screenshots

**"Problem writing Eleventy templates: (more in DEBUG output)

Cannot read property 'getTime' of undefined

TypeError was thrown:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'getTime' of undefined"**
Error file : node_modules@11ty\eleventy\src\Util\Sortable.js:98:17)

Additional context
If you use the data set below, it works because we can explicitly add a date field and hence the pages can be built and collections can be sorted.

let data = [
{
name: 'abc',
date:'2020-10-07T19:22:49.335Z'
},
{
name:'xyz',
date:'2020-10-07T19:22:49.335Z'
}
]

[arcxyz]

I recently got this error when I was accidentally overriding the page variable provided by eleventy on the pagination:

---
pagination:
    data: productPages
    size: 1
    alias: page
...
---

Using another name for the pagination alias solves the issue for me.

[haroldao]

I recently got this error when I was accidentally overriding the page variable provided by eleventy on the pagination:

---
pagination:
    data: productPages
    size: 1
    alias: page
...
---

Using another name for the pagination alias solves the issue for me.

Wowwww thank you 🙌🏽 (I did the same)

[pdehaan]

Note that while not super obvious, there is a note about that pitfall in https://www.11ty.dev/docs/pages-from-data/ (although if anybody can think of somewhere else in the documentation where that callout would be helpful, let us know).

"Note that page is a reserved word so you cannot use alias: page. Read about Eleventy’s reserved data names in Eleventy Supplied Data."

[zachleat]

Duplicate of #3251 and #1173

Also #2161 (comment)