combination with plugin starlight-blog doesn't change folder labels

[gipo355]

Describe the bug

Hello! Been experimenting with starlight and found your very useful plugins

I wasn't able to get the blog and auto-sidebar to work together

While using both the https://github.com/HiDeoo/starlight-auto-sidebar and https://github.com/HiDeoo/starlight-blog plugins together, i can see the auto-sidebar picking up changes but the UI would not reflect the label

17:53:32 [watch] src/content/docs/api-reference/extra-form/_meta.yaml
17:53:32 [watch] src/content/docs/api-reference/extra-form/_meta.yaml
17:53:32 [starlight-auto-sidebar-loader] Reloaded data from api-reference/extra-form/_meta.yaml
17:53:32 [200] /welcome 30ms

disabling the blog plugin makes it work as expected.

To Reproduce

Follow the exact tutorials in both starlight-auto-sidebar and starlight-blog docs

the configurations:

starlight config:

    plugins: [
      starlightAutoSidebar(),
      starlightLinksValidator(),
      // starlightBlog({ }),
    ],

content.config:

export const collections = {
  docs: defineCollection({
    loader: docsLoader(),
    schema: docsSchema({
      extend: (context) => blogSchema(context),
    }),
  }),
  autoSidebar: defineCollection({
    loader: autoSidebarLoader(),
    schema: autoSidebarSchema(),
  }),
};

_meta.yaml config:

label: "Extra Form"

Expected behavior

The folder respects the _meta.yml even with the starlight-blog plugin active

How often does this bug happen?

Every time

System Info

No response

Additional Context

No response

I'm wondering if i could do anything to get them to work together or if it's only me experiencing this problem since i didn't find any related issue

[HiDeoo]

Thanks for the report 🙌

This is definitely a tricky one. To summarize, the issue arises because both plugins perform modifications to the sidebar independently which can lead to conflicts or unexpected behavior.

I have been exploring recently with different approaches on how to best handle this kind of situation but haven't yet found a definitive solution yet. I've also started exploring some alternative that could potentially remove the issue altogether, e.g. having something like the starlight-auto-sidebar plugin built-in to Starlight itself but that's still very much in the early stages of thought and consideration.

[gipo355]

Thanks for the heads up! that explains what i was suspicious of even if I didn't dig very much into starlight and astro.

The auto-sidebar plugin is indeed in my opinion a critical feature for the project when you have to handle hundreds of pages.

Is there anything I could do to help?

[pburrows]

Had the same issue. Would not have noticed it was the blog plugin that was causing the issue. But, it was.