quartz

Quartz is a great tool that I’ve written about before, see#quartz.

So far, I’m loving it. However, it isn’t without its faults. This is a collection of problems I’ve run into w/ possible solutions. I think I’ll probably try to contribute these to the project at a later point.

Published page url casing is not normalized §

In my opinion, there should be a transformation step to change all links and final file names to lowercase. I just think this makes the url look more organized.

Unfortunately without a proper web server, there’s no way to make it so that we ignore url casing when looking for the static files.

Making plugins is weird §

The author made some decisions that IMO make it more difficult to make plugins. This is all I’ll say for now as I’ll be making a plugin later, so I’ll have to learn the ins and outs better.

Quartz doesn’t play nice with emgithub §

Whereas in codepen:

No clue what’s going on here honestly.

… it just started workign…

Publish exclusions §

I had to edit explicit.ts to add this line

// _meta contains things like my obsidian templates
if (vfile.path.includes('_meta')) return false

Would be nice if it was more configurable out of the box

Plausible is enabled by default §

Would be nice if this wasn’t the case as not everyone is using that analytics platform. Not a big issue, but I don’t wanna send requests to sites if I don’t need to.

RSS isn’t configurable §

Again, had to edit contentIndex.ts due to lack of options for rss feed.

Array.from(idx)
+  // only include blog posts in rss
+  .filter(([path]) => path.includes('blog'))

In this case, I wanted my rss to be for my /blog, but still publish /notes just not notify subscribers via rss.