Create a page for every data file?

Question

I'm trying to build a jekyll site that can generate a page for every data file.

Say we have

/_data/
  a.yaml
  b.yaml

where a.yaml has

event_name: A
time: yesterday
contents:
  - name: A1
    url: a1
  - name: B1
    url: b1

b.yaml is basically the same thing with different contents.

I would like the rendered site to have 2 pages: /a.html and /b.html. The contents of each page is a simple listing of the contents in a.yaml or b.yaml. Is it possible in current Jekyll?

I know there is a very nice jekyll addin called jekyll-datapage-gen. However, that addin generates pages for every item in a data file and is different from what I'm looking for... Can anyone provide some suggestions here? Thank you!

Answer 1

You can achieve that using Collections instead of data files. Files will look the same, with front matter, and then you specify in the configuration to make each file a different late with output: true

Have a look at https://jekyllrb.com/docs/collections/, your configuration will look like:

collections: 
    my_collection:
         output: true

It is possible to make the same with data files, creating the post a and the post b, and iterating in each page one of the data files, anyway I think using collections fits perfectly in this case.