From e1b6a0014cabf07ddc7e7931912aece471959224 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sidney <85735034+sidney-eliot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:04:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add explorer example for advanced `sortFn` (#564)

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 docs/features/explorer.md |  115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/features/explorer.md b/docs/features/explorer.md
index fd656a8..f4d54fa 100644
--- a/docs/features/explorer.md
+++ b/docs/features/explorer.md
@@ -179,6 +179,34 @@
 
 ## Advanced examples
 
+> [!tip]
+> When writing more complicated functions, the `layout` file can start to look very cramped.
+> You can fix this by defining your functions in another file.
+>
+> ```ts title="functions.ts"
+> import { Options } from "./quartz/components/ExplorerNode"
+> export const mapFn: Options["mapFn"] = (node) => {
+>   // implement your function here
+> }
+> export const filterFn: Options["filterFn"] = (node) => {
+>   // implement your function here
+> }
+> export const sortFn: Options["sortFn"] = (a, b) => {
+>   // implement your function here
+> }
+> ```
+>
+> You can then import them like this:
+>
+> ```ts title="quartz.layout.ts"
+> import { mapFn, filterFn, sortFn } from "./functions.ts"
+> Component.Explorer({
+>   mapFn: mapFn,
+>   filterFn: filterFn,
+>   sortFn: sortFn,
+> })
+> ```
+
 ### Add emoji prefix
 
 To add emoji prefixes (📁 for folders, 📄 for files), you could use a map function like this:
@@ -216,30 +244,63 @@
 
 To fix this, we just changed around the order and apply the `sort` function before changing the display names in the `map` function.
 
-> [!tip]
-> When writing more complicated functions, the `layout` file can start to look very cramped.
-> You can fix this by defining your functions in another file.
->
-> ```ts title="functions.ts"
-> import { Options } from "./quartz/components/ExplorerNode"
-> export const mapFn: Options["mapFn"] = (node) => {
->   // implement your function here
-> }
-> export const filterFn: Options["filterFn"] = (node) => {
->   // implement your function here
-> }
-> export const sortFn: Options["sortFn"] = (a, b) => {
->   // implement your function here
-> }
-> ```
->
-> You can then import them like this:
->
-> ```ts title="quartz.layout.ts"
-> import { mapFn, filterFn, sortFn } from "./functions.ts"
-> Component.Explorer({
->   mapFn: mapFn,
->   filterFn: filterFn,
->   sortFn: sortFn,
-> })
-> ```
+### Use `sort` with pre-defined sort order
+
+Here's another example where a map containing file/folder names (as slugs) is used to define the sort order of the explorer in quartz. All files/folders that aren't listed inside of `nameOrderMap` will appear at the top of that folders hierarchy level.
+
+It's also worth mentioning, that the smaller the number set in `nameOrderMap`, the higher up the entry will be in the explorer. Incrementing every folder/file by 100, makes ordering files in their folders a lot easier. Lastly, this example still allows you to use a `mapFn` or frontmatter titles to change display names, as it uses slugs for `nameOrderMap` (which is unaffected by display name changes).
+
+```ts title="quartz.layout.ts"
+Component.Explorer({
+  sortFn: (a, b) => {
+    const nameOrderMap: Record<string, number> = {
+      "poetry-folder": 100,
+      "essay-folder": 200,
+      "research-paper-file": 201,
+      "dinosaur-fossils-file": 300,
+      "other-folder": 400,
+    }
+
+    let orderA = 0
+    let orderB = 0
+
+    if (a.file && a.file.slug) {
+      orderA = nameOrderMap[a.file.slug] || 0
+    } else if (a.name) {
+      orderA = nameOrderMap[a.name] || 0
+    }
+
+    if (b.file && b.file.slug) {
+      orderB = nameOrderMap[b.file.slug] || 0
+    } else if (b.name) {
+      orderB = nameOrderMap[b.name] || 0
+    }
+
+    return orderA - orderB
+  },
+})
+```
+
+For reference, this is how the quartz explorer window would look like with that example:
+
+```
+📖 Poetry Folder
+📑 Essay Folder
+    ⚗️ Research Paper File
+🦴 Dinosaur Fossils File
+🔮 Other Folder
+```
+
+And this is how the file structure would look like:
+
+```
+index.md
+poetry-folder
+    index.md
+essay-folder
+    index.md
+    research-paper-file.md
+dinosaur-fossils-file.md
+other-folder
+    index.md
+```

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