Query data from any file

[egoist]

Feature request

What problem does this feature solve?

Allow users to pull data in components when they actually need it.

What does the proposed API look like?

Introducing the saber-data.js (supported in project-level and theme-level):

exports.allTagNames = () => ['foo', 'bar']

In a component:

<script>
import { allTagNames } from 'saber/data'

export default {
  data() {
    return { allTagNames }
  }
}
</script>

How should this be implemented in your opinion?

Convert this with a babel plugin:

import { allTagNames } from 'saber/data'

to:

import allTagNames from '#cache/data.js?name=allTagNames'

The content of #cache/data.js:

const saberData = Object.assign(
  require('/path/to/project/saber-data.js'),
  require('/path/to/theme/saber-data.js')
)

module.exports = name => {
  return saberData[name] && saberData[name]()
}

Add a webpack loader just for #cache/data.js:

const devalue = require('devalue')

module.exports = async function(source) {
    const done = this.async()
	const mod = runCodeInSandbox(source, this.resourcePath)
    const result = await mod(this.resourceQuery.name)
    return `export default ${devalue(result)}`
}

Are you willing to work on this yourself?

Yes.

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[egoist]

Maybe close this in favor of #183

[nblthree]

@egoist Yes #183 seems much better if I am not mistaken you can simply do

exports.handler = { allTagNames: someValue }

inside ./functions/sharedData.js
then requesting the data with

import { embedFunction } from 'saber/functions'

const posts = embedFunction('/sharedData.js')

[egoist]

@MarchWorks should be embedFunction('/sharedData') 😄, and exports.handler should be a function that returns the data.

#183 will also make #191 possible.

[nblthree]

@egoist It's absolutely great just need to be implemented 🎉

[krmax44]

moved to #183