How to exclude/ignore README.md from $content() fetches?

I’m wondering if I can tell @nuxt/content to ignore README files when “fetching” data in a cms like manner.

this.$content('menues') and http://localhost:3030/_content/menues both also return the README.md in ~/content/menues/

I don’t want that. I’d like to exclude README files in general for all content fetches.

[Atinux]

I think we should ignore all files and directories starting by _ and also respecting Nuxt ignore pattern.

This way you could have content/_README.md to directly set content/**/README.md in .nuxtignore

[NozomuIkuta]

@katerlouis

where() query-building method is for you (doc).

Each file name is used as a built-in slug property of document in database (doc), which means it can be filtered out by where() method like the following:

$content().where({ slug: { $ne: 'README' } }).fetch()

If you want to fetch all the README.md files only from all the sub directories, you can also do it:

$content({ deep: true }).where({ slug: 'README' }).fetch()
// or
$content({ deep: true }).where({ slug: { $eq: 'README' } }).fetch()

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JFYI:

Actually, you can chain query-building methods before calling fetch(), so that you can fetch only documents which match all the queries built in the chain.

For example, here is how Theme Docs fetches prev/next documents of the current page’s document (code):

const [prev, next] = await $content(app.i18n.locale, { deep: true })
      .only(['title', 'slug', 'to'])
      .sortBy('position', 'asc')
      .surround(document.slug, { before: 1, after: 1 })
      .fetch()