ContentQL Core

@contentql/core gives configuration which is ready to build a content-oriented, blog website, restaurant website you can add this to your payload existing project.

Getting Started

Example Usage

Add this code in your payload.config.ts file to get a base configuration

import { cqlConfig } from '@contentql/core'
import {
  BlogsCollection,
  MediaCollection,
  PagesCollection,
  SiteSettingsGlobal,
  TagsCollection,
  UsersCollection,
} from '@contentql/core/blog'
import path from 'path'
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url'

// payload block-configuration files
import DetailsConfig from '@/payload/blocks/Details/config'
import HomeConfig from '@/payload/blocks/Home/config'
import ListConfig from '@/payload/blocks/List/config'

const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)
const dirname = path.dirname(filename)
const finalPath = path.resolve(dirname, 'payload-types.ts')

// Add the extra payload configuration you want!
export default cqlConfig({
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:3000',
  secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET,
  cors: [process.env.PAYLOAD_URL],
  csrf: [process.env.PAYLOAD_URL],
  db: process.env.DATABASE_URI,
  collections: [
    UsersCollection,
    MediaCollection,
    PagesCollection,
    TagsCollection,
    BlogsCollection,
  ],
  globals: [SiteSettingsGlobal],
  typescript: {
    outputFile: finalPath,
  },
  resend: {
    apiKey: process.env.RESEND_API_KEY,
    defaultFromAddress: process.env.RESEND_SENDER_EMAIL,
    defaultFromName: process.env.RESEND_SENDER_NAME,
  },
  s3: {
    collections: {
      media: true,
    },
    bucket: process.env.S3_BUCKET,
    config: {
      credentials: {
        accessKeyId: process.env.S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
        secretAccessKey: process.env.S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
      },
      endpoint: process.env.S3_ENDPOINT,
      region: process.env.S3_REGION,
    },
  },
})

Theme Configuration

By default @contentql/core supports Blog, Restaurant website configuration

Blog Configuration

• You can import blog-related collections from @contentql/core/blog 👇
• Select theme parameter as blog for enabling all blog-related plugins

// payload.config.ts file
// Import all blog-collections
import { cqlConfig } from '@contentql/core'
import {
  BlogsCollection,
  MediaCollection,
  PagesCollection,
  SiteSettingsGlobal,
  TagsCollection,
  UsersCollection,
} from '@contentql/core/blog'

export default cqlConfig({
  theme: 'blog', // 👈 pass blog to enable blog related plugins
  collections: [
    UsersCollection,
    MediaCollection,
    PagesCollection,
    TagsCollection,
    BlogsCollection,
  ],
  globals: [SiteSettingsGlobal],
})

Restaurant Configuration

• You can import restaurant-related collections from @contentql/core/restaurant👇
• Select theme parameter as restaurant for enabling all restaurant-related-plugins.

// payload.config.ts file
// You'll get restaurant-configuration
import { cqlConfig } from '@contentql/core'
import {
  CategoriesCollection,
  MediaCollection,
  PagesCollection,
  SiteSettingsGlobal,
  UsersCollection,
} from '@contentql/core/restaurant'

export default cqlConfig({
  theme: 'restaurant', // 👈 pass restaurant to enable restaurant related plugins
  collections: [
    UsersCollection,
    MediaCollection,
    PagesCollection,
    CategoriesCollection,
  ],
  globals: [SiteSettingsGlobal],
})

🔋️Database Adapter

• By default SQLlite database is used, if no db parameter is passed data will be stored in /data/payload.db directory
• @contentql/core package by default comes with all offical payload database-adapters
  • @payloadcms/db-mongodb
  • @payloadcms/db-postgres
  • @payloadcms/db-sqlite
  • @payloadcms/db-vercel-postgres
• based on the dbURI adapter will be automatically picked, example👇

// @payloadcms/db-mongodb adapter will be used
export default cqlConfig({
  dbURI: 'mongodb://127.0.0.1/bolt-theme',
})

// @payloadcms/db-postgres adapter will be used
export default cqlConfig({
  dbURI: 'postgres://username:password@host:port/database',
})

// @payloadcms/db-vercel-postgres adapter will be used
export default cqlConfig({
  dbURI: 'postgres://username:password@host:port/database',
  useVercelPostgresAdapter: true, // pass true to use @payloadcms/db-vercel-postgres adapter
})

// @payloadcms/db-sqlite adapter will be used
// Note for sqlLite adapater by-default we use databaseURL ase file:./data/payload.db
// dbURI will be used as sync-url
// if you want to opt-out of this behaviour pass syncDB as false
export default cqlConfig({
  dbURI: 'libsql://bolt-random.turso.io',
  dbSecret: 'eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9',
})

• You can pass your own adapter with custom-configuration, thats still supported

export default cqlConfig({
  // attach your own database adapter
  db: sqliteAdapter({
    client: {
      url: env.DATABASE_URI,
      authToken: env.DATABASE_SECRET,
    },
  }),
})

Slug Access

You can access the slugs of collections by using this import

// This will provide the slugs of all collections
import { collectionSlug } from '@contentql/core'

const { docs } = await payload.find({
  collection: collectionSlug['blogs'],
  depth: 5,
  draft: false,
})

Removing Collections

You can remove the collections which are not required for you

export default cqlConfig({
  // whatever collection-slug passed in removeCollections or removeGlobals will be removed
  removeCollections: ['blogs'],
  removeGlobals: ['site-settings'],
})

Note: You can't remove the users collection, you can only extend users collection with custom-fields

📦Out of box contents

Plugins

These plugins will be automatically added

• @payloadcms/plugin-nested-docs, @payloadcms/plugin-seo
  • These plugins are enabled for pages collection
• scheduleDocPlugin
  • This is our custom plugin which will provide an option to schedule the publish of a document
  • It's enabled to blogs collection you can extend it but passing your own options in schedulePluginOptions parameter in cqlConfig
• @payloadcms/plugin-search
  • Search plugin is by-default enabled for blogs, tags, users collections
  • you can extend it by passing your own options in searchPluginOptions parameter in cqlConfig
• @payloadcms/plugin-form-builder
  • Form builder is enabled default, It's supports upload field
  • you can extend it by passing your own options in formBuilderPluginOptions parameter in cqlConfig

📔Note

• You can add new fields to the existing Collections or Globals but can't modify existing fields
• radio, select field-type accept options parameter as OptionObject[], we added this to support the merging of configuration

 {
      name: "role",
      type: "select",
      options: [
        {
          label: "Admin",
          value: "admin",
        },
        {
          label: "Author",
          value: "author",
        },
        {
          label: "User",
          value: "user",
        },
        // editor -> ️️string is not allowed
      ],
      saveToJWT: true,
      defaultValue: "user",
      required: true,
    },

💅Admin Panel styling

// Add this import in the layout.tsx or page.tsx of payload admin panel
import '@contentql/core/styles'

Local Development

• No need of any env variables
• Install yalc -> pnpm i -g yalc
• Once your done with your changes, follow the steps below
  • run pnpm run build & yalc publish, this will publish package locally
  • for automatic package publishing in local run pnpm watch
  • now in your payload project run yalc add @contentql/core && yalc link @contentql/core
  • do pnpm i, and check your changes