Mismatch between repo path and collection folder when deploying from a monorepo

[tpluscode]

I think I'm looking for some concept like a "root dir".

In my setup, I have a nuxt app which serves decap and render's its content. The thing is, the app is in a subdirectory in my repository and the entire thing is a monorepo. It looks something like

/
└── nuxt-app/
    └── content/
        ├── blog
        ├── handbook
        └── pages

In my config, I have these collections to match

backend:
  name: github

collections:
  - name: handbook
    label: "Handbook articles"
    label_singular: Handbook article
    identifier_field: id
    folder: "content/handbook"
    extension: md
    widget: "list"
    create: true
    i18n: true
    summary: "{{title}}"
    view_groups:
      - label: Section
        field: section
    path: '{{section}}/{{slug}}'
    fields: []

  - name: pages
    label: "Pages"
    folder: "content/pages"
    extension: md
    widget: "list"
    create: false
    i18n: true
    fields: []

  - name: blog
    label: Blog
    label_singular: Blog Post
    folder: "content/blog"
    extension: md
    widget: "list"
    create: true
    i18n: true
    fields: []

See that each collection's folder is content/*, which works when I add local_backend: true. But when I run the deployed app, I assume decap is looking for content/blog, etc in the root of the repository.

I see a number of possible solutions but none that exist

1. Add an option to local_backend

   local_backend:
     root: nuxt-app
   
   collections:
      - name: blog:
        folder: nuxt-app/content/blog
   

   This way, the folder must match the repo but local_backend removes it when serving local. Not super fond of this, as it appear a little unintuitive

2. Add an option to github backend

   backend:
     name: github
     rootDir: nuxt-app
   
   collections:
      - name: blog:
        folder: content/blog
   

   A little better, keeps the relative path for folder options but the additional rootDir property of GH backend tells it look for content in the right subdirectory.

[tpluscode]

My current workaround is to set the full repo paths in folder of each collection and run local decap server like cd ../..; decap-server