onPublish & onUnPublish hooks

[johannesschaffer]

Currently, collection hooks don't include onPublish & onUnPublish. Those are however required when used as webhooks to rebuild a SSG rendered app.

[DanRibbens]

I don't think you would need a specific onPublish. You can use existing hooks (afterchange, beforechange, afterRead, etc) and add your conditional logic as needed using the doc.status and previousDoc.status.

https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/collections#afterchange
We should consider adding more documentation to cover this scenario, as I imagine it would be fairly common.

What are your thoughts on this?

[johannesschaffer]

Yeah, makes sense;) Didn't think of that.
Two things:

1. It's _status, not status - just for reference, in case someone finds this thread here
2. Maybe add typings to "doc" for the default fields like "_status", so it's easier discoverable with TS? Currently it autocompletes doc.doc.doc.... That's a bug I guess?