Copy json file to functions folder after buidl

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#1

Hi,

My app is written in hugo and it is generating a json file with list of products. Products are added as markdown files, and a json file is generated on this basis.
Is there a way to copy this json file to functions folder after hugo generates a site and this json file?

#2

Hi @xlawok

A good question that I wasn’t sure of the answer to, so I tested.

I set up a postbuild script to copy a file to the functions directory and this worked for me.

Using Vue as my example, I had functions in the default netlify/functions directory.

scripts: {
  "build": "vue-cli-service build",
  "postbuild": "cp dist/data.json netlify/functions"
}

So as soon as the build script is finished, postbuild runs. This is done prior to the Functions building starting.

Edit:

Of course, hugo doesn’t use a package.json and build scripts, so you could change the build command from hugo to hugo && cp path/to/file.json netlify/functions.

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#3

Hi @coelmay

Thanks to you i made it like this in netlify.toml:

[build]
    command = "hugo && cp public/products/index.json functions && cd functions && npm i && cd .."
    publish = "public"
    functions = "functions"
[functions]
    node_bundler = "esbuild"
#4

Can you confirm if this worked for you or not @xlawok

#5

actually not. I forgot I had json thrown in there manually. So when I’ve changed some data in product markdown I saw that in json file in functions folder it is not updated.

Unfortunately it also doesn’t work when I switched it from netlify.toml to package.json

{
  "name": "proatkiv",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "hugo",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "postbuild": "cp -f public/products/index.json netlify/functions  && cd functions && npm i && cd .."
  },
#6

Hold the horses it was working back than, but I forgot to add subfolder and that’s why i haven’t seen this json

[build]
    command = "hugo && cp -f public/products/index.json functions/data && cd functions && npm i && cd .."
    publish = "public"
    functions = "functions"
[functions]
    node_bundler = "esbuild"
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#7

So this is working for you now, copying the newly build JSON from hugo to the functions directory so you can access it at runtime?

#8

Yeap, now it is working like a charm.
Thank you so much.

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