SETTING SITE DATA

Since any site needs data that describes navigation items, social media links or other things, setting this up in a Mandy-powered site is quite simple. Create a directory in the project root called data. In this directory you can store JSON files that contain data. If, for example, you wanted to save some navigation links in this file, you could create a file called nav.json and put this in it:

[
    {
        "name": "Home",
        "url": ""
    },
    {
        "name": "About",
        "url": "content/about"
    },
    {
        "name": "Blog",
        "url": "content/blog"
    }
]

This file describes a bunch of navigation links that will appear on your site if they are called in a Liquid template.

DATA IN LIQUID TEMPLATES

You would call them in a Liquid template like this:

{% for item in data["nav"] %}
 <li class="navigation">
  <a class="navigation" href="{{ site.baseurl }}{{ item.url }}">{{ item.name }}</a>
 </li>
{% endfor %}

Note the use of the ["nav"] key. This key coincides with the name of the JSON data file. Support for other data storage formats is planned.