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Create a category taxonomy for content

Use a reusable categories collection and a has-many relationship from content entries that need tagging.

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Use a reusable categories collection and a has-many relationship from content entries that need tagging.

Use this when

  • add categories to posts
  • model reusable taxonomy entries
  • tag content with multiple categories
  • build filtered content listings

Dyrected concepts

relationship, hasMany, urlPattern

Additional packages: No additional packages.

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Complete recipe

This is the canonical source compiled and behavior-tested by @dyrected/knowledge.

import { defineCollection, defineRelationshipField, defineTextField } from "@dyrected/core";

export const Categories = defineCollection({
  slug: "categories",
  admin: { useAsTitle: "title", urlPattern: "/categories/{slug}" },
  fields: [
    defineTextField({ name: "title", label: "Title", required: true }),
    defineTextField({ name: "slug", label: "Slug", required: true, unique: true }),
  ],
});

export const Posts = defineCollection({
  slug: "posts",
  admin: { useAsTitle: "title", urlPattern: "/blog/{slug}" },
  fields: [
    defineTextField({ name: "title", label: "Title", required: true }),
    defineTextField({ name: "slug", label: "Slug", required: true, unique: true }),
    defineRelationshipField({
      name: "categories",
      label: "Categories",
      relationTo: "categories",
      hasMany: true,
    }),
  ],
});

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