Using 'page' in shortcodes - beware of caching

Recent Hugo versions (we are now at v0.120) introduced the elegant ‘page’ notation. We now have easy access to a ‘global Page object’! Great.

While we were happily using it like this in a Hugo shortcode:

{{ page.File.BaseFileName }}

we noticed some (apparently) weird behaviour when building the site and watching what the Firefox browser was rendering. Weird.

We reported it in the issue queue on the Github repository:

‘page’ used in a shortcode presents some not so consistent behaviour: problems occur only on the first ‘hugo server’ run, [..]

Are we missing something else here?

Once more Joe M. came to the rescue (just a couple of hours later!) and pointed us to the documentation section in which the ‘missing’ piece could be found.

Now we know that caching and concurrency play their role!

Just FYI.

Happy coding!