Revalidate data

[PiotrSierant]

Hi, I have 3 recent posts on the home page. The project builds and works flawlessly. However, when I use the revalidatePath("/") function, I get an error when retrieving data from outstatic and the metadata.json file.

After performing this function:

export const changeStatusOpinion = async (
  opinionId: string,
  status: OpinionStatus
): Promise<ChangeStatusResponse> => {
  try {
    const updatedOpinion = await db.opinion.update({
      where: {
        id: opinionId,
      },
      data: {
        status: status,
        updatedAt: new Date(),
      },
    });

    if (updatedOpinion) {
      revalidatePath("/");
      revalidatePath("/admin");
      return {
        success: true,
        message: "The feedback status has been successfully updated.",
      };
    } else {
      return {
        error: true,
        message: "The feedback status could not be updated.",
      };
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Error updating opinion status:", error);
    return {
      error: true,
      message: "An error occurred while updating the status of the feedback.",
    };
  }
};

I get a view like this on the home page:

and such logs:

this is my home page code:

import { Help } from "@/components/sections/Help";
import { Hero } from "@/components/sections/Hero";
import { About } from "@/components/sections/About";
import { load } from "outstatic/server";
import { LastPosts } from "@/components/sections/LastPosts";
import { getBase64 } from "@/utils/base64";
import { generateSearchJSON } from "@/lib/generateSearchJSON";
import { Cooperation } from "@/components/sections/Cooperation";
import { Instagram } from "@/components/sections/Instagram";
import { Newsletter } from "@/components/sections/Newsletter";
import { Opinion } from "@/components/sections/Opinion";
import { getOpinionWithPublishedStatus } from "@/actions/opinion";

export type SelectedOstDocumentFields = {
  title: string;
  publishedAt: string;
  slug: string;
  coverImage: string;  
  description: string;
};

async function getData() {
  const db = await load();
  const allPosts = await db
  .find<SelectedOstDocumentFields>({ collection: 'posts', status: 'published' }, [
      'title',
      'publishedAt',
      'slug',
      'coverImage',
      'description',
  ])
  .sort({ publishedAt: -1 })
  .limit(3)
  .toArray();

  const postsWithDefaultCoverImage = allPosts.map(post => ({
    ...post,
    coverImage: post.coverImage || '/images/cover-image-if-not-exist.png'
  }));

  return {
    allPosts: postsWithDefaultCoverImage
  }
}

export default async function Home() {
  await generateSearchJSON();
  const {allPosts} = await getData();
  const opinions = await getOpinionWithPublishedStatus();
  const images = allPosts.map(post => post.coverImage);
  const bluredImages = await Promise.all(
      images.map((image) => getBase64(image))
  )
  return (
    <main className="overflow-hidden">
      <Hero />
      <About />
      <Help />
      <LastPosts allPosts={allPosts} bluredImages={bluredImages} />
      <Cooperation />
      <Instagram />
      <Opinion opinions={opinions.data} />
      <Newsletter />
    </main>
  );
}

[avitorio]

Hi @PiotrSierant ,

Outstatic currently only supports generating data for creating static pages. It seems you are trying to fetch Outstatic's data dynamically or after the build process. That's why you're getting that error.

I think a lot of the bugs people report with Outstatic stem from this. I need to do some investigation and see if there's a way to allow the metadata.json to be accessed outside of the build process.

[PiotrSierantWSEI]

This would solve a lot of the problems associated with working in Next.js.

Most of the errors I'm facing are outside the static generation of the blog page or post's page. (Like the above are the last 3 posts on the home page).

When I use, for example, the cookies function from next/cookies then automatically my site goes to a dynamic page which again raises issues with using outstatic and having to fiddle with setting the group structure of routes

[avitorio]

I'll do my best here. Hopedukly I can find a good solution.