Nuxt 2.3.x and above failing to build Nuxtent pages

[ofek-a]

Version

1.4.1

Reproduction link

https://github.com/OfekA/static-site-nuxt-issue

Steps to reproduce

• clone the repo from the Reproduction link
• npm install
• npm run generate
• the build should be successful including Nuxtent pages (path: /careers)
  you should see something similar in the log:
  

now to fail the build:

• update the 'Nuxt' dependency in package.json to 2.3.4 or anything 2.3.x and above
• delete package-lock.json file and the node-modules folder
• npm install
• npm run generate
• the build will successful but Nuxtent pages will not be generated (path: /careers)
  you should see something similar in the log:
  

What is expected?

Nuxtent pages to be generated just like in Nuxt 2.2.0 and below

What is actually happening?

Nuxtent pages are not generated

Additional comments?

I've also posted the issue in the Nuxt Discord channel, @manniL checked the issue there and concluded that it is most likely related to Nuxtent and not Nuxt itself.
Would really appreciate some help here as this is the only thing blocking me from upgrading to Nuxt 2.3.x and above. Thanks in advance!

_{This bug report is available on Nuxt community (#c144)}

[cesasol]

Nuxt indeed broke nuxtent and there is a fix but is not backwards compatible, that's why it wasn't updated. You can install @dinamomx/nuxtent that is like a beta version of this package.

[ofek-a]

@cesasol thanks, that branch indeed seems to work. Is there any rough estimate to when it should be merged with master?

[RobbieTheWagner]

Any updates on this?

[RobbieTheWagner]

@cesasol @ofeka I am unable to get @dinamomx/nuxtent to work either. Is there another workaround for Nuxt 2.4.x?

[renestalder]

That's also my biggest blocker currently. If there is a fix, couldn't that be cherry picked to master and released as patch?

[ofek-a]

@rwwagner90 @renestalder This issue is really annoying and I'm not sure why the issue was closed as it's very critical.

Anyway, @dinamomx/nuxtent does work for me on the latest nuxt 2.4.x, I'll try to help:

• Make sure you have "@dinamomx/nuxtent": "3.0.1" in your package.json.
• Make sure you have "@dinamomx/nuxtent" under modules in nuxt.config.js
• I have my Nuxtent config under nuxtent object in nuxt.config.js
• Make sure you delete package-lock.json file and node_modules folder and reinstall the dependency tree.

That's all I can think about at the moment, hopefully it will work for you now..

[RobbieTheWagner]

@ofeka do you have an example app I could take a look at? When I run nuxt generate I get an error:

ℹ Generating: true                                                                                                                              nuxt:nuxtent 08:17:08
ℹ opening server connection                                                                                                                     nuxt:nuxtent 08:17:08
ℹ prefix: undefined baseurl: undefined                                                                                                          nuxt:nuxtent 08:17:08

 FATAL  Cannot read property 'length' of undefined                                                                                                           08:17:08

  at pathtoRegexp (node_modules/express/node_modules/path-to-regexp/index.js:63:49)
  at new Layer (node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:45:17)
  at Function.use (node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:464:17)
  at Function.<anonymous> (node_modules/express/lib/application.js:220:21)
  at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
  at Function.use (node_modules/express/lib/application.js:217:7)
  at nuxt.hook (node_modules/@dinamomx/nuxtent/dist/module.js:1113:11)
  at utils.sequence.fn (node_modules/@nuxt/core/dist/core.js:436:53)
  at promise.then (node_modules/@nuxt/utils/dist/utils.js:1664:43)
  at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/next_tick.js:81:5)

If I run in dev and go to localhost:3000 I see a giant block of text, rather than the site as well. It appears to just spit out all the JSON.

[renestalder]

@ofeka I just don't like the note in the README of that branch/npm package that tells me to not use it in production.

[ofek-a]

@renestalder @rwwagner90 We have now completely stopped using nuxtent because all the issues it had, I was able to quickly convert our old markdown content to be using nuxt-gustave within 1 hour and update to the latest nuxt@2.6.2, hopefully, this will help...

[cesasol]

@ofeka Sorry for the radio silence, as the now only maintainer there is so much that I can when I have a full time project, but there is a new version @dinamomx/nuxtent that works with nuxt 2.6.* and Gustave looks interesting, sure there is something that I can learn from them

[ofek-a]

@cesasol No hard feelings, and thanks for still supporting Nuxtent, it served us well and IMO this is mostly the fault of Nuxt for breaking support multiple times for such a core plugin in their ecosystem.

[RobbieTheWagner]

The @dinamomx/nuxtent actually does not work either. I ended up needing to just use the webpack frontmatter-markdown-loader and do things manually.

[RobbieTheWagner]

@cesasol perhaps we could collaborate with whoever is working on the dinamomx one and get some more maintainers added here?

[cesasol]

@rwwagner90 I am the maintainer of the dinamomx repo but that fork is intended as a mirror to work with full admin permission for deployment purposes making this repo the official one. So it would make sense to collaborate to this one repo

[RobbieTheWagner]

@cesasol I'm not sure I understand, but okay. Are you able to add maintainers here?

[cesasol]

@rwwagner90 Not here, alidcastano only put me as a collaborator on this repo so I don't have to many privileges