Follow symlinks inside `content/`

[jamesaorson]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I want to be able to symlink directories into the content/ dir, or as the content/ dir itself.

When using queryContent in Nuxt v2, or queryCollection in Nuxt v3, symlinks are ignored and I am unable to query for their contents.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to do the following

mkdir content
cd content
ln -s ../node_modules/symbolics-data
npm run dev
# See symbolics-data be queryable

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have tried symlinking different levels of the directories, and it seems that it just stops following the moment it hits a symlink.

Additional context

A screenshot of the directory I was trying to use. content was a real directory, containing a symlink to ../node_modules/symbolics-data

We were using a symlink to a directory installed via npm, but if we replace the symlink with the directory itself, nuxt content is super happy and does as we wish.

[farnabaz]

Instead of using symlinks, you can create a collection from an external source. All you need is to define cwd in your collection's source. Checkout https://content.nuxt.com/docs/collections/sources#cwd

[jamesaorson]

I know I can define this other collection, but why can’t I just use a symlink as well? Is there some kind of design reason Nuxt does not want to follow symlinks?