Code snippets that I used earlier

Storing useful code snippets that worked but got disused because of improvement.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

The code I was using to fetch all blog posts from the directory. This code is working okay,but got an upgrade with the addition of a featured category to be displayed on the main page.

/**blogPosts is an array of posts which is filled conditionally.
if the query variable has a value,
the posts are filtered based on that value,
else all posts are fetched from the directory and then sorted with
descending dates.**/

  const blogPosts: Post[] = query
    ? getFilteredPosts(query).filter((post) => post.publish)
    : getAllPosts()
        .filter((post) => post.publish)
        .sort(
          (a, b) => new Date(b.date).getTime() - new Date(a.date).getTime()
        );

The following code is extracted from the category/[category]/page.tsx file,before it had the functionality to accomodate both categories and search filter.

 const blogPosts =
    category === query
      ? getFilteredPosts(query).filter((post) => post.publish)
      : params.category === "All"
      ? getAllPosts().filter((post) => post.publish)
      : getPostsbyCategory(params.category);
  const blogPosts = getAllPosts().filter((post, i) => post.publish);