For my sister's birthday, I decided to build her a fast, clean, and modern website using Gatsby. It is for her comic series, Saga of the Old Gods. ...
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Awesome write up Brian, thanks for this! I work on Netlify CMS, and you're dead on - compatibility will be our next major focus, and Gatsby is up first. Stay tuned!
The devil is back again. Shawn, do you or anyone on your team know a good way to work around this, for now? I tried clearing my Gatsby cache and can send you min gatsby.config file if need be. This is prob the most frustrating part. Otherwise, I love using the CMS.
Hi Brian, thanks for this article! I'm just getting into Gatsby and Netlify myself with the aim of broadening my understanding of Jamstack - I've been fiddling with websites for 15 years now so it feels great to be working with something that's just building flat, fast pages again after over a decade of wrangling Wordpress!
I'm finding all the issues you did, however, and my current headache is the dreaded "xyz" must not have a selection... on the featured images I'm setting in the CMS - did you ever find a concrete way around this? The error is so vague and I've spent a couple of days now trying different solutions, cleaning my Gatsby cache and reading the same few articles on this over and over again! It's a real black spot on what is an excellent approach to site building and content management.
I did end up fixing it, but it's been literal months since I worked on the project and forgot the exact details of what I did to fix it.
However, I will provide you my gatsby-config.js file and maybe that can help?
Thank you so much! Unfortunately rejigging this hasn't helped so I feel that the problem is likely elsewhere, either in the frontmatter itself or how I'm building the pages. Ah well, I'm sure I'll reach a conclusion eventually!
One thing I do remember clearly is needing to have all the fields in the frontmatter be there, or it would get weird.
Hey Brian. Not sure what validation is used for the form (I’m on mobile and can’t inspect) but it doesn’t show any error messages if I submit without writing anything (no required fields).
I would also suggest to use at least 16px font size for the input field since otherwise IOS zooms in and it’s uncomfortable to type.
Oh man! I forgot the required attributes. Good catch. Thank you!
Hi Brian, great read! I'd love to get your feedback on the Cosmic JS Headless CMS + Gatsby. We have examples available, including the newest post by Jacob Knaack on building an agency portfolio website using Gatsby + Cosmic JS.
I'll have to take a look!
Thanks for the post! I've been playing around with Gatsby and Netlify CMS myself. Seems like it might be a good combination. Seeing it through your eyes is really helpful.
Huh?
"Seldom is it seamless."
True that. I feel like every time I start up gatsby develop, some plugin has broken. Other than that, Gatsby is awesome.