💡 RFC: Allow to set a default layout for all posts

[stenehall]

Background & Motivation

Importing a set of blog posts there's a lot of extra work having to set layout for each post.

It would be great if there was a posibility to set a default layout in astro.cofig.mjs

Proposed Solution

Possible solutions

Extend astro.config.mjs with defaultLayout

Alternatives considered

One other possible solution would be having default layout.astro files in each folder, but this seems far more complex.

Risks, downsides, and/or tradeoffs

Added complexity. Opening up for having a default layout means the next step is having one per folder and so on. It might create unnecessary complexity.

Open Questions

Is astro.config.mjs the intended place for all settings? Could we have a per folder settings file? placing a layout.astro file in src/pages/posts for example.

Detailed Design

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[L1lith]

I think this is a duplicate of this issue

[stenehall]

I think this is a duplicate of this issue

From my understanding of what _app.js It’s not really meant to solve the same thing, but definitely overlap. The app file is your general wrapper for everything. You might then want one design for pages and one design for blog posts. That’s where a default layout comes in. For the blog posts you’d not want to have to set a layout for each post.

[FredKSchott]

Duplicat of #397