Gatsby-theme-novela: Bad author page slug

[slorber]

https://github.com/narative/gatsby-theme-novela/blob/master/%40narative/gatsby-theme-novela/gatsby/node/createPages.js#L29

This slugify function is a bit too simple:

function slugify(str, base) {
  const slug = str
    .toLowerCase()
    .replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, "-")
    .replace(/(^-|-$)+/g, "");

  return `${base}/${slug}`.replace(/\/\/+/g, "/");
}

This lead to "/authors/s-bastien-lorber" for my author page

I suggest using a technique to replace accents with non-accent chars before replacing by -. Also using a dedicated slugification package could do the job
https://stackoverflow.com/a/37511463/82609

Eventually having the ability to choose my own slug could be handy

[brotzky]

Will add a package to handle this and have it the same as articles where you can define an optional slug that overrides the generated one.

[brotzky]

Special characters and custom slug now supported for authors.
v0.4.2

[slorber]

Thanks :)

[jpvalery]

Same issue for posts title métro becomes m-tro - could we get the same fix there?

[brotzky]

great idea. will port it to handle Posts as well.

[brotzky]

This should already be handled actually! at least locally. maybe I need to publish the update :)

[jpvalery]

That's probably going to help 😛