Template engine of content affects front matter of layout

[thejohnfreeman]

The inputs:

• In my template: templateEngineOverride: md
• In the template's directory data file: layout: post.njk
• In post.njk: permalink: "blog/{{ page.date | date: '%Y/%m/%d' }}/{{ title | slug }}/index.html"

The output:

Writing _site/<p>blog/{{ page.date | date: '%Y/%m/%d' }}/{{ title | slug }}/index.html</p>
 from ./src/blog/2012-03-23-template-inheritance-for-handlebars.md.

Totally unexpected. No actual file is written at that location, of course. Perhaps Eleventy swallows the "not a legal file name" error? (I was looking in the wrong directory.)

If I set markdownTemplateEngine in the .eleventy.js configuration, the same thing happens, which means every post overwrites the same file.

[thejohnfreeman]

For users: my workaround to disable the template language for my content is to wrap it all, head to toe, in {% raw %} ... {% endraw %}.

[zachleat]

Hmm… I agree that is is unfortunate. It does seem strange to me that you’d use a nunjucks file but not want nunjucks rendered?

It seems almost as though you want an engine override to apply only to the permalink. Something like permalinkTemplateEngineOverride.

It will take some persuasion to classify this as a bug and not a feature request though.

[zachleat]

Oh oh, hmm I misread your issue and glossed over your use of layout here entirely, sorry about that. I definitely agree this is a bug.

[zachleat]

Created a repro gist https://gist.github.com/zachleat/f199e9b0856337506e13a486d96514ad that exhibited this issue with Eleventy 0.7.1. This issue was fixed with Eleventy 0.8.0.

Sorry for the late reply! 0.8.0 was released April 2019 https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v0.8.0