Elder.js Plugin: Sitemap

Easily generate a sitemap for your Elder.js website.

By default it will build a sitemap when you build your Elder.js site.

This sitemap will include a sub-sitemap for each route.

Currently there is a hard limit of 50,000 urls per sub-sitemap.

Install

npm install --save @elderjs/plugin-sitemap

Config

Once installed, open your elder.config.js and configure the plugin by adding @elderjs/plugin-sitemap to your plugin object.

plugins: {

  '@elderjs/plugin-sitemap': {
    origin: '', // the https://yourdomain.com
    exclude: [], // an array of permalinks or permalink prefixes. So you can do ['500'] and it will match /500**
    routeDetails: {}, // set custom priority and change freq if not it falls back to default
    lastUpdate: {}, // configurable last update for each route type.
  },

}

Configuring Route Specific Details

plugins: {
  '@elderjs/plugin-sitemap': {
    origin: '', // the https://yourdomain.com
    exclude: [], // an array of permalinks or permalink prefixes. So you can do ['500'] and it will match /500**
    routeDetails: {
      home: {
        priority: 1.0,
        changefreq: 'monthly',
      },
      blog: {
        priority: 0.8,
        changfreq: 'monthly',
      }
    }, // set custom priority and change freq if not it falls back to default
    lastUpdate: { // configurable last update for each route type.
      home: '2020-01-01',
      blog: async ({ query, request }) => {
        // receives the query prop from hooks. This allows you to hit your db or api or anything else configured on your query object.
        // return a date object.
        return new Date(Date.now());
      }
    }, 
  },
}

Exclusion Logic is Greedy

For example excluding 'green' route

exclude: ['green'],

would excude all routes starting with 'green', also 'greenland' and 'green-eggs'

'green' route could be explicitly excluded with

exclude: ['green/'],

Also nested routes or specific slugs of route could be excluded with

exclude: ['green/', 'greenland/polar-bear'],