Dynamic route getStaticPaths issue in SSG

[fiery silo]

Hello, I'm having a bit of an issue currently and hope one of you can help me.
This is likelu not an issue on astro's end, but on mine, however I hope that I can still get the help I need.

---
import type { GetStaticPaths } from "astro";
import type { Reference } from "../../types/home";
import config from "../../config/references.yml";

const references: Reference[] = config.references;

export const getStaticPaths = (() => {
  return references.map(reference => ({
    params: {
      project: reference.name.toLowerCase()
    }
  }));
}) satisfies GetStaticPaths;

const { project } = Astro.params;
---

The component above (/pages/references/[project].astro) gives me the following error: references is not defined (references/[project].astro:9:3).

I'm kind of confused, because I made sure the import is correct, and fetching the reference array is also not an issue in other components, such as here:

import type { Reference } from "../../types/home";
import config from "../../config/references.yml";

const references: Reference[] = config.references;
// ...

The component above (/components/home/References.tsx) has no issues using the references whatsoever

perhaps this is some sort of incompatibility between the vite-plugin-yaml and astro?
I just created a new ts file which works if I import it:

export const staticPaths = config.references.map((reference: any) => ({
  params: {
    project: reference.name.toLowerCase()
  }
}));

[sonic crow]

Hey! So this is a classic stumbling block for using getStaticPaths!

getStaticPaths runs in it's own process and cannot reference variables outside it's own scope!

So here just simply move your const references = line into your getStaticPaths method and it should all work. (I haven't actually checked any of the other code, but give it a try and report back!)

From the docs

[fiery silo]

that worked! thank you^^

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