Automatically named objects from *.11tydata.js files

[stuffnting]

This might be a daft question, but I am stumped.

In the official documentation, there is a simple example of JavaScript Data Files.

module.exports = [
  "user1",
  "user2"
];

I can see that if this code was in a global data file within, let's say _data/myData.js, the array would be accessible in a template as myData. However, if the code is in a template data file, such as posts/posts.11tydata.js, how is the array accessible in a template?

I realise that I can just use this instead:

module.exports = { 
myData:
  [
    "user1",
    "user2"
  ]
};

But, is there no automatically named object for such data files?

[pdehaan]

I think the myData values should be available as myData within any templates in your posts/** directory since they should be getting similar to frontmatter values in your directory data file.

[pdehaan]

https://github.com/pdehaan/11ty-2996

<!-- ./src/pages/index.liquid -->
global: <pre>{{ myData1 | json }}</pre>
local: <pre>{{ myData2 | json }}</pre>

// ./src/_data/myData1.js
module.exports = [
  "global1",
  "global2"
];

// ./src/pages/pages.11tydata.js
module.exports = {
  myData2: [
    "local1",
    "local2"
  ],
};

OUTPUT

global: <pre>["global1","global2"]</pre>
local: <pre>["local1","local2"]</pre>