Can this template be set up so that each article is it's own file?

[rchrdnsh]

I noticed that this blog template is set up so that all articles are 1 large JSON file, but I would like to figure out how to set up the template so that each article is in it's own JSON file, but I'm not sure how to go about it. It would be awesome if the template was set up this way, so I could see and understand how to achieve this structure.

This is just a feature request, really :-)

Anyway, thanks :-)

[Zippersk]

I don't understand why you want this but here you go...
Article detail element has "article" object property. There goes article data.
<article-detail name="detail" article="[[article]]"></article-detail>

Let's say you got you article's data named like this: art1.json art2.json ... artXX.json. Than you could load it with iron-ajax

<dom-module id="your-element">
    <template>
        <iron-ajax id="ajax" handle-as="json" on-response="handleResponse"></iron-ajax>
        <template is="dom-repeat" items="{{articles}}">
             <article-detail name="detail" article="{{item}}"></article-detail>`
        </template>
    </template>
<script>
    Polymer({
        is: 'your-element',
        properties: {
            articles: {
                type: Array,
                value: function () {
                    return [];
                }
            },
            i: {
                type: Number,
                value: 0
            }
        },
        ready: function: () {
                this.$.ajax.url = "art" + this.i + ".json";
                this.$.ajax.generateRequest();
        },
        handleResponse: function (e) {
                var article = e.detail.response;
                this.push('articles', article);
                this.i++;
                this.$.ajax.url = "art" + this.i + ".json";
                this.$.ajax.generateRequest();
        }
    });
</script>
</dom-module>

But don't do this. Posts data are usually small. Each article will needs one request to server.

[jsilvermist]

If the data is too large to download all at once, would it not be better to store all the data in a single json file, and then send an Ajax request to a php script which pulls in only the parts you want all at once, instead of forcing yourself to generate a new request per post?

[Zippersk]

Yeaaah, that's called api. PHP should do all work for you. For example reddit has great api where you can filter and sort articles.
https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q=polymer&limit=10