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useCollection

You can import the useCollection() composable from @lando/vitepress-theme-default-plus and use it to create things like index pages, prev and next links and more.

js
const {
  hasItems,
  pages,
  page,
  nextPage,
  prevnext,
  prevPage,
  path,
  tags,
} = useCollection();

Or target a specific collection:

js
const data = useCollection('post');

Here is how we generate our /all index page which contains a good mix of the most useful things above:

html
<VPLCollectionPage>
  <VPLCollectionPageTitle>
    <template #title>
      ALL THE THINGS!
    </template>
    <template #lead>
      A mix of different collectons all on one page but organized in different sections!
    </template>
  </VPLCollectionPageTitle>

  <VPLCollectionPageTags v-model="tags" />

  <VPLCollectionPageSection v-if="showGuides">
    <template #title>
      Guides
    </template>
    <template #lead>
      Guides are sort of like tutorial adjacent things but with a tighter vibe.
    </template>
    <template #items>
      <VPLCollectionItems
        :items="guides.pages"
        :tags="tags"
      />
    </template>
  </VPLCollectionPageSection>

  <VPLCollectionPageSection v-if="showPosts">
    <template #title>
      Posts
    </template>
    <template #lead>
      Posts are sort of like a <em>hot-mess</em> of free-for-all anything-goes word-vomit pretending to be prose.
    </template>
    <template #items>
      <VPLCollectionItems
        more="date"
        :items="posts.pages"
        :tags="tags"
      />
    </template>
  </VPLCollectionPageSection>
</VPLCollectionPage>

<script setup>
import {computed} from 'vue';
import {useCollection} from '@lando/vitepress-theme-default-plus';
import {
  VPLCollectionItems,
  VPLCollectionPage,
  VPLCollectionPageSection,
  VPLCollectionPageTags,
  VPLCollectionPageTitle,
} from '@lando/vitepress-theme-default-plus';

const guides = useCollection('guide');
const posts = useCollection('post');
const {hasItems, tags} = useCollection();

const showGuides = computed(() => hasItems(guides.pages, tags));
const showPosts = computed(() => hasItems(posts.pages, tags));
</script>

For more detail on Collections components you can check this.