Sudden Build Failure

[nathanmartin]

@nckai

the developer we engaged suspects that this might be a server-side issue.

Sounds like they’re a bit out of their depth.

The build log contains a stack trace which shows that the error is this:

@nckai

11:36:06 PM: failed Building static HTML for pages - 8.868s
11:36:06 PM:
11:36:06 PM: 24 | function HTMLReactParser(html, options) {
11:36:06 PM: 25 | if (typeof html !== ‘string’) {
11:36:06 PM: > 26 | throw new TypeError(‘First argument must be a string’);
11:36:06 PM: | ^
11:36:06 PM: 27 | }
11:36:06 PM: 28 | if (html === ‘’) {
11:36:06 PM: 29 | return [];
11:36:06 PM:
11:36:06 PM: WebpackError: TypeError: First argument must be a string
11:36:06 PM:
11:36:06 PM: - index.js:26
11:36:06 PM: [gatsby-starter-bootstrap-5]/[html-react-parser]/index.js:26:1
11:36:06 PM:
11:36:06 PM: - blog-post.js:70
11:36:06 PM: @r-ichard/gatsby-starter-bootstrap-5/src/templates/blog-post.js:70:41

The function HTMLReactParser checks if the html argument provided to it is a string.
When it is not, it throws a TypeError.
When your build encounters an Error, it will fail and will not deploy.

@nckai

Nothing had changed before this issue surfaced.

This is unlikely.

It may be true that you haven’t changed code, but the log clearly references WordPress.
So your site is integrated with a CMS, and an issue like this can easily be caused by a piece of CMS content being structured in a way that the existing site code was not prepared to handle.

Since the stack trace references blog post I’d start by seeing if anyone has created or edited any blog posts recently.