Content collections config

[night wasp]

Hi!, if I have my collection like this:

src/
content/
tours/ <-- one json file per entry
config.ts

How should I configure the loader?

[hazy temple]

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You can use the glob() loader pointing at your src/content/tours directory, since you have one JSON file per entry. For example:

// src/content.config.ts
import { defineCollection } from 'astro:content';
import { glob } from 'astro/loaders';
import { z } from 'astro/zod';

const tours = defineCollection({
  loader: glob({
    pattern: '**/*.json',          // one file per entry
    base: './src/content/tours',   // where your files live
  }),
  schema: z.object({
    // your fields here, e.g.:
    // id: z.string(),
    // title: z.string(),
    // ...
  }),
});

export const collections = { tours };

This follows the same pattern as the docs example that loads Markdown files from a base directory using glob(), just adjusted to JSON and your tours path. [Content collections]

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[night wasp]

@hazy temple If i use z.date() on my schema, how I should set the date on my .json file?

[hazy temple]

Let me check the knowledge base for you again. One moment! :books:

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The knowledge sources only show how z.date() works with YAML frontmatter, not JSON files, so there’s no explicit guidance for JSON. [Content schema]

From the docs example:

In YAML, dates written without quotes around them are interpreted as Date objects
publishDate: z.date(), // e.g. 2024-09-17 [Content schema]

For JSON, the docs don’t say whether z.date() will accept a string like "2024-09-17" or require a different format, so I can’t state the exact expected JSON representation with confidence.

If you want to be sure it works with a string date in JSON, the docs do show using a string plus a transform:

updatedDate: z.string().transform((str) => new Date(str)),

which would clearly accept a JSON value like:

{
  "updatedDate": "2024-09-17"
}

[Content schema]

So:

• There is no explicit example of z.date() with JSON in the docs.
• Using z.string().transform(...) is the documented way to safely accept a string date from JSON.

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