Gatsby Source Github Raw

NOTE! Gatsby has introduced an api for Creating Remote File Nodes which is a more generic utility compared to this plugin. Please consider utilizing the native utilities before using this package!

A simplified way of leveraging the Github Contents Api as Gatsby graphql nodes.

Features

• Implied Mime Types mime/media types are set based on file extensions when available
• Bind Properties you can bind properties that are 'attached' to the raw file node if needed

To Use

• Install npm install --save @bcgov/gatsby-source-github-raw
• Add to your gatsby config

{
  resolve: '@bcgov/gatsby-source-github-raw',
  options: {
    githubAccessToken: '...',
    files: [
      'https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/something.md'
    ]
  }
}

Options

• githubAccessToken: this is the oauth access token, it will require read priviledges on a repo
• files: this is either a list of files [String], a list of objects, or a name of a resolved transformer json node type, or a function

Files Option

There are a few ways to pass in files

1. as a simple array of strings ['https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/something.md', 'https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/something2.md']
2. as an array of objects, this allows you to bind extra properties to each node

if you are binding properties, you need to ensure that the properties that you bind between files match the same schema since this process depends on gatsby's graphql type inferrence routine

[
  {
    url: 'https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/something.md'
    labels: [ // labels will become a bound property that is available at node._xxboundProperties.labels
      'cool',
      'featured',
    ]
  },
  {
    url: 'https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/something2.md',
    labels: [ // labels will become a bound property that is available at node._xxboundProperties.labels
      'featured',
    ]
  }
]

3. If there are many files you'd like to source, containing them all in the gatsby-config.js file is cumbersome. You may store your 'files config' into a json file and have gatsby-transformer-json pick it up. The implied nodeType that is created from the directory can be passed in as the files option

foo.json

  [
    {
    "url": "https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/something.md",
    "labels": [
      "cool",
      "featured"
    ]
  },
  {
    "url": "https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/something2.md",
    "labels": [
      "featured"
    ]
  }
  ]

gatbsy-config

{
  resolve: '@bcgov/gatsby-source-github-raw',
  options: {
    githubAccessToken: '...',
    files: 'fooJson'
  }
}

4. Files as a function

/**
 * fileCallback
 * @param {Function} getNodes gatsby getNodes function in case you need it
 * @returns {Array<String> | Array<Object>} a list of files in strings or objects
 **/
const fileCallback = getNodes => {
  // get nodes allows you to produce a set of urls based on your own conditions, for example if you
  // had multiple json files that held url information that you wanted to normalize and use
  return ['...list of files']
}

{
  resolve: '@bcgov/gatsby-source-github-raw',
  options: {
    githubAccessToken: '...',
    files: () => ['https://github.com/foo/bar/blob/master/blah.md']
  }
}

Exceptions to applying bound properties

Because manifests can be passed in as plain js objects as well as loaded through the use of @bcgov/gatsby-transformer-json, to maintain consistency between these two possible sources, the following properties are not usable within json files that are leveraged as a source for files.

• internal
• id
• parent
• children

This is because these properties are default properties applied to any graphql node within gatsby.

Accessing Bound Properties

Bound Properties are accessed at node._xxboundProperties