Update fast-glob references

[ArmandPhilippot]

Since withastro/astro#13299, Astro no longer uses fast-glob but tinyglobby. Referring to a Discord issue, it seems there is a difference at least in the output order. So we might encounter issues with glob patterns too...

We still have links to fast-glob in:

• guides/imports.mdx
• upgrade-to/v5

The second link is not an issue I think. However, the first one is in a section named Glob Patterns in Astro so this could be confusing since glob patterns in Astro no longer rely on fast-glob (and neither Vite's import.meta.glob).

The issue is... fast-glob docs is a bit more detailed than tinyglobby docs so there is no equivalent link. From my understanding, fast-glob uses micromatch under the hood while tinyglobby uses picomatch.

So, does the read more link could be replaced

• from: https://github.com/mrmlnc/fast-glob#pattern-syntax
• to: https://github.com/micromatch/picomatch#globbing-features

In my opinion, this could work but maybe I'm missing something.

This is a small issue... I could have make a PR but I'm not sure I'm not missing something here so a discussion felt more appropriate!

Edit: related to the Discord issue, explaining that users should order themselves the output of getCollection to have confidence on the output order could be helpful I think. Maybe in Querying collections.

[sarah11918]

Thanks, Armand! Certainly, we do suggest that some kind of ordering is done when using getCollection() because the order isn't necessarily predictable. That could be a good addition to Querying Collections.

I also think the "read more" link swap you propose looks good!

I think these could be two separate docs issues, and each of them labelled as good first issue and help wanted!

[ArmandPhilippot]

Indeed, we had some explanation regarding the order! I just found where it was... in the v5 upgrade guide, so we should repeat that information in the content collections guide because not everyone is upgrading. 😄

#11673 and #11674 have been opened, so we can close this discussion!