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At the beginning of December, Ondřej Mirtes released PHPStan 0.12! 0.12 brought about many changes. However, 🙃, it broke the PHPStan Drupal extension.
While fiddling with Gatsby, I wondered: what about fetching data from Drupal to push into the siteMetadata array? In the gatsby-config.js API file, you can specify metadata about the site.
I just discovered that there are some problems when working with the gatsby-source-drupal plugin. There is already a problem where empty data doesn't generate the schema type (even if it has no fields.) There is another one if you only receive one value.
As I continue working on a Drupal Commerce demo with GatsbyJS, I have moved on towards using GatsbyJS themes. GatsbyJS themes are composable, meaning you can use more than one within a single GatsbyJS application. However, it seems like you really piece together different themes to build out sections of your site.
I finally have my workspace set up, allowing me to begin serving content from one Drupal Commerce API server to three GatsbyJS apps.
Yesterday I made an attempt to use a single GatsbyJS instance to create multiple build outputs. That didn't work out so well. I also realized I was trying to fit a square peg through a round hole. Why fight how GatsbyJS works?
As I continue to fiddle with GatsbyJS, one thing I noticed is that you cannot specify the output directory of the GatsbyJS build. This was requested, implemented, and then reverted in GatsbyJS. In fact, it may never become a feature.
As I have begun working with GatsbyJS once again, I am trying to find a way to work with GatsbyJS and Drupal locally in a somewhat streamlined fashion. Honestly, serving Drupal over PHP's built-in server and using the gatsby develop and gatsby serve command work just fine. But, I love tooling.
I have been tracking down an interesting quirk when parsing JSON:API resources with the Drupal source plugin for GatsbyJS. I have a test environment with the JSON:API Schema module installed and was receiving errors about data in the links property.
The Drupal community has taken to GatsbyJS, the React framework that lets you easily build static (and more) websites (or applications.) And, honestly, this makes a lot of sense. Drupal is a great content management system and it even has ways to create microsites within one installation (thanks to techniques like the Domain module.)