feat: improve navigation structure

src/core/runtime/composables/navigation.ts

@@ -44,16 +44,16 @@ export const useDocusNavigation = ({ context, state, api }: DocusAddonContext) =
     const nav = state.navigation[locale || app.i18n.locale] || []
 
     let items = nav
-    let match
+    let match: NavItem
 
     // The deepest exclusive navigation that can be found based on `from`
-    let exclusiveContent
+    let exclusiveContent: NavItem
     // Parent of exclusive Content
-    let parent
+    let parent: NavItem
 
     // `from` parameter handling
     if (from) {
-      let lastMatch
+      let lastMatch: NavItem
 
       const paths = from.split('/')
 
@@ -63,15 +63,15 @@ export const useDocusNavigation = ({ context, state, api }: DocusAddonContext) =
 
         // Remember last matched content
         // This content will use as navigation parent if it has an exclusive decendant
-        if (match && !match.shadow) {
+        if (match && match.page) {
           lastMatch = match
         }
 
         // Find matched content
         match = links.find(item => item.to.split('/')[index] === path)
         if (match) {
           // Update parent and exclusiveContent if the matched content marked as exclusive navigation
-          if (match && match.navigation && match.navigation.exclusive) {
+          if (match && match.exclusive) {
             parent = lastMatch || parent
             exclusiveContent = match
           }
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ export const useDocusNavigation = ({ context, state, api }: DocusAddonContext) =
       // matched page info
       title: exclusiveContent && exclusiveContent.title,
       to: exclusiveContent && exclusiveContent.to,
-      navigation: exclusiveContent ? exclusiveContent.navigation : {},
       // matched parent
       parent,
       // filter children
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@ export const useDocusNavigation = ({ context, state, api }: DocusAddonContext) =
   function filterLinks(nodes: NavItem[], maxDepth: number, currentDepth: number) {
     return nodes.filter(node => {
       // Navigation as false means that we want that link to be hidden from navigation.
-      if (node.navigation === false) return false
+      if (node.hidden) return false
 
       // We don't want to show drafts.
       if (node.draft === true) return false
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ export const useDocusNavigation = ({ context, state, api }: DocusAddonContext) =
       if (currentDepth && maxDepth > currentDepth) return false
 
       // Check if marked as nested, if so children will be empty
-      if (node.navigation.nested === false) node.children = []
+      if (node.nested === false) node.children = []
 
       // Loop on current node children if exists
       node.children =

src/core/runtime/composables/templates.ts

@@ -8,8 +8,15 @@ export const useDocusTemplates = (
   currentNav: ComputedRef<DocusCurrentNav>
 ) => {
   function getPageTemplate(page: DocusDocument) {
-    let template = typeof page.template === 'string' ? page.template : page.template?.self
-
+    let template =
+      /**
+       * Use template defined in page data
+       */
+      typeof page.template === 'string' ? page.template : page.template?.self
+
+    /**
+     * Look for template in parent pages
+     */
     if (!template) {
       // Fetch from nav (root to link) and fallback to settings.template
       const slugs: string[] = page.to.split('/').filter(Boolean).slice(0, -1) // no need to get latest slug since it is current page
@@ -22,17 +29,20 @@ export const useDocusTemplates = (
         const link = api.findLink(links, to)
 
         if (link?.template) {
-          template = link.template.nested
+          template = link.template || template
         }
 
-        if (!link?.children) {
-          return
-        }
+        if (!link?.children) return
 
         links = link.children
       })
+    }
 
-      template = template || state.settings.template
+    /**
+     * Use global template if template is not defined in page data or in parent pages
+     */
+    if (!template) {
+      template = state.settings.template
     }
 
     template = pascalCase(template)

src/core/utils/navigation.ts

@@ -22,34 +22,36 @@ const getPageLink = (page: any): NavItem => {
 
   const to = withoutTrailingSlash(page.to || `/${slug}`)
 
-  let navigation = typeof page.navigation === 'string' ? { slot: page.navigation } : page.navigation
-
-  if (navigation !== false) {
-    navigation = {
-      title: page.title || slugToTitle(to.split('/').pop()) || '',
-      slot: '',
-      nested: true,
-      ...navigation
-    }
-  }
-
   const template =
     typeof page.template === 'string' ? { self: page.template, nested: `${page.template}-post` } : page.template
 
-  return {
+  const item: NavItem = {
     slug,
     to,
-    shadow: !!page.shadow,
-    title: page.title,
-    draft: page.draft,
-    template,
-    meta: {
-      icon: page.icon,
-      description: page.description
-    },
-    navigation,
-    children: []
+    page: !!page.dir,
+    children: [],
+    title: page.title || slugToTitle(to.split('/').pop()) || '',
+    ...page.navigation
+  }
+
+  if (page.draft) {
+    item.draft = true
+  }
+
+  if (page.icon) {
+    item.icon = page.icon
   }
+
+  if (template) {
+    item.template = template.nested
+  }
+
+  // set `hidden = true` if navigation is disabled for the page
+  if (page.navigation === false) {
+    item.hidden = true
+  }
+
+  return item
 }
 
 /**
@@ -121,10 +123,6 @@ function createNav(pages: any[]) {
     if (_page.slug !== '') dirs = dirs.slice(0, -1)
 
     if (!dirs.length) {
-      if ($page.navigation) {
-        $page.navigation.slot = $page.navigation.slot || 'header'
-      }
-
       return links.push($page)
     }
 
@@ -156,9 +154,8 @@ function createNav(pages: any[]) {
 
     // If index page, merge also with parent for metadata
     if (!_page.slug) {
-      if (dirs.length === 1 && $page.navigation) {
-        $page.navigation.slot = $page.navigation.slot || 'header'
-        $page.navigation.exclusive = $page.navigation.exclusive || false
+      if (dirs.length === 1) {
+        $page.exclusive = $page.exclusive || false
       }
 
       mergeLinks(lastLink, $page)

src/defaultTheme/components/molecules/AsideNavigation.vue

@@ -58,13 +58,13 @@
           <ul>
             <template v-for="link in links">
               <AsideNavigationItem
-                v-if="link.navigation.children !== false && link.children.length"
-                :key="link.navigation.title"
-                :title="link.navigation.title"
+                v-if="link.nested !== false && link.children.length"
+                :key="link.to"
+                :title="link.title"
                 :docs="link.children"
-                :collapse="link.navigation.collapse"
+                :collapsed="link.collapse === true"
               />
-              <AsideNavigationItem v-else :key="link.navigation.title" :docs="[link]" />
+              <AsideNavigationItem v-else :key="link.to" :docs="[link]" />
             </template>
           </ul>
           <AsideBottom />

src/defaultTheme/components/molecules/AsideNavigationItem.vue

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     <ul v-if="!isCollapsed || isActive" class="mb-2 ml-2">
       <li v-for="doc of docs" :key="doc.to">
         <NuxtLink
-          :to="$contentLocalePath(doc.navigation.redirect || doc.to)"
+          :to="$contentLocalePath(doc.redirect || doc.to)"
           class="block w-full"
           :class="[
             $docus.isLinkActive(doc.to)
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@
               {{ doc.icon }}
             </InjectComponent>
 
-            <span> {{ doc.navigation.title }} </span>
+            <span>
+              {{ doc.title }}
+            </span>
 
             <ClientOnly>
               <span v-if="doc.draft" class="w-2 h-2 ml-2 bg-yellow-500 rounded-full opacity-75" />

src/types/core.ts

@@ -21,31 +21,61 @@ export interface Toc {
 
 // Navigation
 export interface NavItemNavigationConfig {
+  /**
+   * Navigation title
+   */
   title: string
+  /**
+   * If set to `false`, the nested pages will not display in Docus navigation menus
+   */
   nested: boolean
-  slot: string
+  /**
+   * If set to `true`, other pages will not show in the left menu when user visiting the page or its nested pages.
+   */
   exclusive: boolean
-  // Collapse aside navigation by default
+  /**
+   * If set to `true` in an `index.md`, the category will be collapsed by default in aside navigation.
+   */
   collapse: boolean
-  // Useful for directories `index.md` which are empty pages, to get redirect to another page
+  /**
+   * If set in an `index.md`, the page will redirect to the specified path when loaded, can be useful for empty categories pages.
+   */
   redirect: string
 }
-export interface NavItem {
+
+export interface NavItem extends NavItemNavigationConfig {
+  /**
+   * Page slug
+   */
   slug: string
+  /**
+   * full path of page
+   */
   to: string
-  title: string
-  shadow: boolean
+  /**
+   * Shows if the page is draft or not
+   */
   draft?: boolean
-  template?: {
-    self: string
-    nested: string
-  }
-  navigation: NavItemNavigationConfig | false
+  /**
+   * Provide template name that should use to render the page
+   */
+  template?: string
+  /**
+   * Shows if this nav belogs to a real page or not
+   */
+  page: boolean
+  /**
+   * Small Icon that shows before page title
+   */
+  icon?: string
+  /**
+   * If set to `false`, the page will not show in navigation menus
+   */
+  hidden: boolean
+  /**
+   * Child pages
+   */
   children: NavItem[]
-  meta: {
-    icon?: string
-    description?: string
-  }
 }
 
 export type PermissiveContext = Context & { [key: string]: any }