Adding 'gatsby-source-filesystem' to gatsby-config.js breaks build

[h0rhay]

Summary

When using basic gatsby starter kits, I am repeatedly encountering problems when trying to query markdown files.

I am following the basic tutorials on the gatsby site here:
https://www.gatsbyjs.org/tutorial/part-four/#your-first-graphql-query

As soon as I install the gatsby-source-filesystem plugin and add this:

{
      resolve: `gatsby-source-filesystem`,
      options: {
        name: `src`,
        path: `${__dirname}/src/`,
      },
    }

To my gatsby-config.js..

Then the build no longer works and I get this error every time:

I have then removed all node_modules and reinstalled, but that still doesn't work.

Can anyone help with this most basic issue?

[stefanprobst]

Could you post your complete gatsby-config.js and/or link to a repo where this happens?

[CanRau]

Might this happen because you add the whole src directory instead of src/pages or similar? Haven't tried it myself but I could imagine it making problems?

[chriswingler]

Are you able to install gatsby-source-filesystem? Not sure if it's related, but I have not been able to install the package and use markdown because of these errors:

 Couldn't find package "got@^7.1.0" required by "gatsby-source-filesystem" on the "npm" registry.
> info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.
> Error: Couldn't find package "valid-url@^1.0.9" required by "gatsby-source-filesystem" on the "npm" registry.

[CanRau]

@chriswingler seems to be a different situation?! Yesterday I installed 2.0.1 multiple times without any problems maybe a problem with npm, or perhaps yarn proxy/mirror? have you tried once? have you tried deleting node_modules then reinstalling everything?

And anyways imho it seems more related to yarn/npm than gatsby
maybe helpful issues yarnpkg/yarn#6029, yarnpkg/yarn#2611, yarnpkg/yarn#5508, and more

[chriswingler]

thanks @CanRau will look into the yarn issues

edit: ended up being that python2 wasn't installed - works now on my end, but different issue.

[kakadiadarpan]

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[kakadiadarpan]

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