Add default root collection

Author: janezd

ingest/collection.ts

@@ -24,9 +24,15 @@ const collectionMatter = (indexMd: string, slug: string, defaults: Partial<Colle
     { admins: isListOfStrings }
   );
 
+const DefaultCollectionContent = `# Notes`;
+
 export const parseCollection = async (pathParts: string[], defaults: CollectedDefaults): Promise<RawCollectionDef> => {
   const fullPath = pathParts.join("/");
-  const indexMd = fs.readFileSync(getMdFile(pathParts, "collection")!, "utf-8");
+  const mdFile = getMdFile(pathParts, "collection");
+  if (!mdFile && pathParts.length !== 0) {
+    throw new Error(`Collection ${fullPath} does not have an index.md(x) file`);
+  }
+  const indexMd = mdFile !== null ? fs.readFileSync(mdFile, "utf-8") : DefaultCollectionContent;
   const { frontmatter, content } = collectionMatter(indexMd, fullPath, defaultsFor(defaults, fullPath, "collection"));
   const mdxContent = parseMd(content);
 

ingest/updatePaths.ts

@@ -746,9 +746,8 @@ export const updatePaths = async (
 };
 
 export const updateRoot = async (db: Database) => {
-  const rootCollection =
-    getMdFile([], "collection") ? await parseCollection([], []) : null;
-  if (rootCollection?.frontmatter.public) {
+  const rootCollection = await parseCollection([], []);
+  if (rootCollection.frontmatter.public) {
     const buildId = (await db.get(
       `INSERT INTO builds (path) VALUES (?) RETURNING id`,
       [""])