Chronoblog requires at least one post with a "cover" in frontmatter

[chronoblog]

Chronoblog requires at least one post with a "cover" in frontmatter

[ganevdev]

I think you are talking about this: https://github.com/Chronoblog/gatsby-theme-chronoblog#frontmatter-placeholder ?

[macintacos]

Nope; I left that file alone and got the error I provided above when I removed the cover from the last post's frontmatter. The frontmatter-placeholder index file still exists and has the cover field, but gatsby develop doesn't seem to care, and the site won't render until I add the cover field to at least one post.

[russmatney]

I experienced this yesterday while moving into this theme - I couldn't get the page building again until I'd provided an image at exactly the path specified by cover in a post. Things worked great after adding an image, but beforehand the errors seem to be that the gql query handler for cover gets a String instead of an object.

[ganevdev]

Here is a test starter where this error is reproduced: https://github.com/Chronoblog/gatsby-theme-chronoblog/tree/master/tests/profile-minimal

But I still don’t understand why this is happening.

Command to run:

yarn start:profile-minimal

[ganevdev]

Thanks to the investigation by @russmatney #36 (comment), we know that this problem does not have a “right” solution. But we can do something.

So, I tried to add a real image file to the frontmatter-placeholder: https://github.com/Chronoblog/gatsby-theme-chronoblog/tree/master/tests/profile-minimal/content/links/frontmatter-placeholder, and everything seemed to work. I will add an image file to all starters.

I don’t like this solution because it relies a lot on the frontmatter-placeholder - the user can accidentally delete this folder, and then a lot of things can go wrong.

I’m thinking about maybe creating a separate place for this file? Or maybe automatically generate it every time a site is generated?