Eleventy: Can Eleventy globally transform all input files with a given name to a different output name WITHOUT dir data files?

[sonniesedge]

Given an input of:

README.md
  - dir1/
    - README.md
    - anotherfile.md
  - dir2/
    - README.md

is there a GLOBAL option that I can use to have README.md files output as index.html?

THE HUGE CATCHES are:

• For reasons of tidyness and non-tech people being involved I don't want data files like readme.11tydata.js in the same directory as the markdown files.
• the markdown files can't contain frontmatter.

Is this possible?

Example: https://github.com/springernature/diversity-hiring. I'd like the root to be cleared of the data file (and .eleventyignore if it's possible to configure that away also)

[sonniesedge]

LOOK AT THIS LOVELY BOY AND HIS SOLUTION!: https://twitter.com/zachleat/status/1298641013968437251

I should be able to use eleventyComputed.js to transform the page.inputPath value.

😁

[vfalconi]

an alternative solution, right in the eleventy file:

eleventyConfig.addCollection('readme', collection => {
    return collection.getAllSorted().map(item => {
        if (item.fileSlug === 'README') {
            item.outputPath = item.outputPath.replace('/README', '');
        }
    });
});

output:

Writing _site/index.html from ./src/README.md.
Writing _site/dir2/index.html from ./src/dir2/README.md.
Writing _site/dir1/anotherFile/index.html from ./src/dir1/anotherFile.md.
Writing _site/dir1/index.html from ./src/dir1/README.md.
Wrote 4 files in 0.21 seconds (v0.11.0)

[sonniesedge]

I ended up using @vfalconi's solution. Thanks for the help, folks!