Getting Started with Dev.to's Stackbit Connection

CJ Davis — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:00:24 +0000

You've probably noticed the new announcement from Dev.to about how You can now generate self-hostable static blogs right from your DEV content via Stackbit.

If you're someone like me who has thought about starting blogging but just haven't made the commitment yet, this seemed like a nifty project to check out. However there is one caveat in their guide on How To Generate A Site With Stackbit (at least when using Hugo and the Fresh theme): you actually need to have at least one post in your profile; otherwise the Netlify build will fail with Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "section" failed: "/opt/build/repo/layouts/_default/blog.html:4:51": execute of template failed: template: _default/blog.html:4:51: executing "content" at <"/posts">: can't evaluate field Pages in type *hugolib.Page.

Instead of being a good citizen and opening a PR to handle the null instance (that's on the TODO list, though), I decided to check out Dev's editor and create my very first post! Figured this would be more interesting than a 'lorem ipsum' or 'hello world!', and maybe it'll help someone else.

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Getting Started with Dev.to's Stackbit Connection