Use typescript alias & deps in collection pattern

[QuentinFrc]

Hi ! Just want to share my use case with you and discuss about my "problem"

In a monorepo I have a docs project (apps/docs) and I'd like to define a document collection with the following pattern: '@repo/ui/**.mdx'.

In the ui packages (packages/ui) I have the following export: “./*.doc”: “./src/components/*/index.mdx”.

This would give the following code:

const uiDocs = defineCollection({
	name: 'UI Docs',
	/*pattern: 'packages/ui/src/components/button/index.mdx',*/
	pattern: '@repo/ui/*.doc',
	schema: s.object({
		slug: s.slug('ui'),
		title: s.string(),
		description: s.string(),
		body: s.mdx(),
	}),
});

The current workarround is to define "../.." as root in config and then add full path to the package but it could be cool to use directly ts alias and package resolution.

Allowing to define config like this :

const docs = defineCollection({
	name: 'Docs',
	pattern: '@/contents/docs/**/*.mdx', // with @/ mapped to src/ in `apps/docs`
	schema: s.object({
		slug: s.slug('docs'),
		title: s.string(),
		description: s.string(),
		body: s.mdx(),
	}),
});

const uiDocs = defineCollection({
	name: 'UI Docs',
	pattern: '@repo/ui/*.doc', // and `@repo/ui` package installed
	schema: s.object({
		slug: s.slug('ui-docs'),
		title: s.string(),
		description: s.string(),
		body: s.mdx(),
	}),
});

const config: UserConfig = {
	collections: { docs, uiDocs },
};

This may not be in the lib and could be a "pre-process task" before velite build

What do you think about it ?

EDIT:

For now I use this config

import { defineCollection, s, UserConfig } from 'velite';

const LOCAL_CONTENT_DIR = 'apps/docs/src/contents' as const;

const docs = defineCollection({
	name: 'Docs', // collection type name
	pattern: [
		`${LOCAL_CONTENT_DIR}/docs/**/*.mdx`,
		'packages/ui/src/components/**/index.mdx',
	],
	schema: s.object({
		slug: s.slug('docs'),
		title: s.string(),
		description: s.string(),
		body: s.mdx(),
	}),
});

const config: UserConfig = {
	root: '../../',
	collections: { docs },
};

export default config;