Explain λ icon from astro build

[tordans]

I am getting this output from astro build

I am trying to understand what the λ icon means.

Places I searched

• There is nothing in the output in the console
• Searching the docs does not return a result

  

• Searching the code only explains what it is not, it is not something of type page, redirect or fallback
  https://github.com/search?q=org%3Awithastro%20%CE%BB&type=code

I am getting it for my feed.xml.ts and some custom api/campaigns.json.ts so it might be an indicator for JSON or XML output?

One thing that makes me look at this is, that with NextJS, there are Icons and they reference the fact that a route is dynamic vs. static. Which would be something I need to know with Astro, because I need my page to be fully static…

[delucis]

Ah, good question. Yeah that icon is supposed to mean “endpoint” AFAIK. So it just indicates that the file was generated with an endpoint instead of a .astro (or .md/.mdx) file that outputs HTML.

I need my page to be fully static

All those paths you see listed under “generating static routes” are static. Dynamic/on-demand rendered routes do not log anything in that part of the build.

[tordans]

Thanks for clarifying.

TBH, I wonder if this info is actually worth having, given that the generated file is also visible in the output as "*.html" or ".json".

I am thinking about where to document this best and the best in place documentation would likely be below the "generating static routes" section. https://docs.astro.build/en/reference/cli-reference/#astro-build might also be a place but that already requires some research steps for users…