Author page will refuse to render a 404

[binyamin]

Summary

Given a URL https:///11ty.dev/authors/:name/ - if :name doesn't exist, or :name contains uppercase characters, the serverless function fails.

Details

When there's a trailing slash, the HTTP status code is 500. The response is a JSON object, instead of HTML. The object looks like this:

{
  "error": "json.filter is not a function"
}

When the trailing slash is omitted, the status code is 404, and the object looks like this:

{
  "error": "No matching URL found for /authors/binyaminGreen in {\"/authors/:name/\":\"./src/authors/author-pages.md\"}"
}

Notes

This may be a problem with the internal Serverless plugin, but I decided to start from the beginning of the chain.

[binyamin]

@pdehaan any thoughts?

[pdehaan]

Seems unfortunate.

• [200] https://www.11ty.dev/authors/binyamingreen (lowercase)
• [200] https://www.11ty.dev/authors/binyamingreen/ (lowercase trailing /)
• [404] https://www.11ty.dev/authors/binyaminGreen (uppercase char)

  • { "error": "No matching URL found for /authors/binyaminGreen in {\"/authors/:name/\":\"./src/authors/author-pages.md\"}" }

• [500] https://www.11ty.dev/authors/binyaminGreen/ (uppercase char, trailing /)

  • { "error": "json.filter is not a function" } 

• [500] https://www.11ty.dev/authors/usernotfound/ (lowercase, no user found, trailing /)

  • { "error": "json.filter is not a function" } 

Not sure if there's a way when using serverless to force the :name path to be lowercase. And intercept missing users and redirect or show a more meaningful error.

I honestly haven't tried playing w/ serverless paths yet, but it's high on my list now that 1.0 is released. ❤️