Plugin for creating a digital garden in Gasby

Improvements

Support emacs working files

  • I use spacemacs for tending my garden

    • It creates an autosave file for anything you are currently editing, like garden/.#empathizing-with-your-users.mdx
    • This file is added and then removed

  • gatsby-theme-brain throws an error

    Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'garden/.#empathizing-with-your-users.mdx'
    - get-markdown-notes.js:23
      [personal-blog]/[@aengusm]/gatsby-theme-brain/src/get-markdown-notes.js:23:24
    - Array.map
    - get-markdown-notes.js:17 module.exports
      [personal-blog]/[@aengusm]/gatsby-theme-brain/src/get-markdown-notes.js:17:6

  • Other node tools don't seem to have this problem

  • My suspcion is that this file gets added to the build because it exists, but then it is never full removed

  • If I try to run the build with an unsaved file (at least with the npm linked setup), the error is also thrown

    if (!expr) {
          const e = new Error("debugging");
          console.error("e.stack", e.stack);
        }
    • Doesn't seem to provide useful info, just the same thing that's showing up in the logs
Approach
  • Clone gatsby-theme-brain and link my local blog to it
  • Look into how the build works
    • I've seen chokidar used a lot, is this part of what it does?
    • What's the common way of watching files with node? Maybe nodemon, babel, or webpack tool is a good example
  • After looking into this, the best approach might be to just allow the client to exclude certain files. This would keep the lib from encoding much of the internals of my environment
Notes

  • I don't know much about how to write a Gatsby plugin, I probably would want to look into that more

  • I'm having trouble setting up my dev environment, I'm seeing this error in the logs when running linked version with npm link @aengusm/gatsby-theme-brain

    ERROR
    UNHANDLED REJECTION expr is not a function
TypeError: expr is not a function
- source-nodes.js:57
  /Users/juan/code/personal/gatsby-theme-brain/src/source-nodes.js:57:21
- interpreter.js:650 Interpreter.exec
  [gatsby-theme-brain]/[xstate]/lib/interpreter.js:650:24
- It seems like `expr` is coming through as undefined when it gets used. That's
  confusing though, because it's in a file that's not in this repo
- Would it be possible to see who is calling the `log` that throws this error?
- I think that this was a bug introduced
  [here](https://github.com/aengusmcmillin/gatsby-theme-brain/commit/ccc3b237fc299ae2718fada09901825a0efa51b6#diff-142987439dc1a1a523e05892a9e2d296R69).
  I think that it could be addressed by setting a default behaviour for that log
  instead of passing undefined
- What is xstate? it seems to be wrapping the chokidar steps
export const _frontmatter = {"title":"Plugin for creating a digital garden in Gasby"}

Where have I mentioned this?