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Next.js with Sanity not building Blog pages


I'm working on my first integration of Sanity with Next.Js, trying to add a blog to a personal site. Dev works fine, but when I go to deploy, or do a build, I get an error that it can't find one of the props for the blog page.

Error thrown is this:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'title' of undefined

This is what I'm using for my [slug].js file:

import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import { motion } from 'framer-motion';
import Head from 'next/head';
import { useRouter } from 'next/router';
import Layout from '../../components/layout';
import Scrollbar from 'react-scrollbars-custom';

import Transitions from '../../lib/transitions';

import BlockContent from '@sanity/block-content-to-react';

import { postQuery, postSlugsQuery } from '../../lib/grocQueries';
import { getClient, overlayDrafts, sanityClient } from '../../lib/sanity.server';
import { urlForImage, usePreviewSubscription } from '../../lib/sanity';

const pageVariants = Transitions.pageVariant;
const pageTransition = Transitions.pageTransition;

export const Post = ({ data = {}, preview }) => {
    const router = useRouter();

    const slug = data?.post?.slug;
    const {
        data: { post, morePosts },
    } = usePreviewSubscription(postQuery, {
        params: { slug },
        initialData: data,
        enabled: preview && slug,
    });

    return (
        <Layout>
            <motion.article className='blog-article' initial='initial' animate='in' exit='out' variants={pageVariants} transition={pageTransition}>
                <Scrollbar style={{ width: '100%', height: '100%' }}>
                    <figure className='hero-container'>
                        <h1 className='blog-title'>{post.title} </h1>
                        {post.mainImage && <img className='blog-hero' alt='Some alt Text' src={urlForImage(post.mainImage).url()} />}
                    </figure>

                    <div className='copy-block'>
                        <BlockContent blocks={post.body} imageOptions={{ w: 860, fit: 'max' }} {...sanityClient.config()} />
                    </div>
                </Scrollbar>
            </motion.article>
        </Layout>
    );
};


export async function getStaticProps({ params, preview = false }) {
    const { post, morePosts } = await getClient(preview).fetch(postQuery, {
        slug: params.slug,
    });

    return {
        props: {
            preview,
            data: {
                post,
                morePosts: overlayDrafts(morePosts),
            },
        },
    };
}
export async function getStaticPaths() {
    const paths = await sanityClient.fetch(postSlugsQuery);
    return {
        paths: paths.map((slug) => ({ params: { slug } })),
        fallback: true,
    };
}

export default Post;

Solution

  • <figure className='hero-container'>
                            <h1 className='blog-title'>{post?.title} </h1>
                            {post?.mainImage && <img className='blog-hero' alt='Some alt Text' src={urlForImage(post?.mainImage).url()} />}
                        </figure>
    

    During the build time next not aware of the post object and its key so it's better to make an optional chaining.