build command to only build pages in pages config

[kousun12]

My expectation is that if I set pages in observablehq.config.js that the built directory would only include things in there. Is there a way to ignore / not automatically crawl and build all the pages in my root?

i have something like:

➜  fw git:(main) ✗ tree src -L 1
src
├── analysis_template.yaml
├── bar.md
├── components
├── data
├── foo
│   ├── index.md
│   └── sub_foo.md
├── index.md
└── observable.png

and trying to just build the pages for foo/

  output: "just_foo",
  pages: [
    {
      name: "Example Foo",
      path: '/foo/',
      pages: [
        {name: "Sub foo", path: "/foo/sub_foo"},
      ]
    }
  ],

But i notice this tries to build bar.md as well (along with /index.md), which I would like to NOT happen in this case. Is there a way to get framework to ignore other pages by default?

[Fil]

This is not supported at the moment. The pages are listed in

framework/src/config.ts

Lines 307 to 324 in 6d455ac

	async *paths() {
	const visited = new Set<string>();
	function* visit(path: string): Generator<string> {
	if (!visited.has((path = normalizePagePath(path)))) {
	visited.add(path);
	yield path;
	}
	}
	for (const path of this.loaders.findPagePaths()) {
	yield* visit(path);
	}
	for (const path of getPagePaths(this)) {
	yield* visit(path);
	}
	for await (const path of dynamicPaths()) {
	yield* visit(path);
	}
	},

in particular, all the files that end in .md are listed in:
https://github.com/observablehq/framework/blob/main/src/loader.ts#L99-L107

then later during the build process, the draft pages are ignored.

I realize it's not exactly what you're trying to achieve, but here are some alternatives:

• you might try and modify the root option to /src/foo/; or
• add draft: true in the front-matter for pages you don't want to build.

[uhlenbrock]

@Fil This doesn't appear to work with parameterized routes. I have draft: true on a page loader, and the page is not built — but the link is left in the nav.