Add options for feed update customization

[webcatzz]

The Neocities feed shows site updates using screenshots of the last four pages that were edited. Would it be possible to add an input to select which pages are deployed last? I like pushing my site with git but I lose the ability to customize how the update appears in the feed.

Thanks for the good work :-)

[bcomnes]

Is that available in the API? Open to adding it if so.

[webcatzz]

Not in the official API...

But in async-neocities you could filter out certain files from filesToUpload in much the same way protected files are already filtered out from filesToDelete:

// in neocitiesLocalDiff()
// given "delayedFiles: [list, of, paths]" in opts

const delayedFiles = new Set(opts.delayedFiles)

const filesToAdd = difference(difference(localFiles, ncFiles), delayedFiles)
const filesToDelete = difference(difference(ncFiles, localFiles), protectedFiles)

And then, in the deploy-to-neocities script, client.upload() them once all other files are uploaded. The only real trouble would be getting the list of paths to delay in the first place.

[bcomnes]

So the important files are the ones that upload last?

What about being able to provide an array of strings that can be used in a sort predicate that are used to ensure they upload in that final order? Non-matching strings are just ignored. It would a static configuration most likely.

[webcatzz]

That would also work! The feed update shows screenshots of whatever the last four HTML files to be edited for the first time in the last 24 hours were, with the very last file's screenshot larger than the rest

[bcomnes]

Ok, open to contributions for this over in https://github.com/bcomnes/async-neocities. I do have an active project to update that lib to esm and add a CLI to enable a local-first deploy workflow that seamlessly carries over into CI, so I'll consider adding it when I am in there next, but no guarantees.

[bcomnes]

Issue: https://github.com/bcomnes/async-neocities/issues/80