A post about problems
Posted on 3rd January 2020
I experienced some issues setting up my pc/mac for working on the #100DaysOfGatsby project, so in an attempt to aid my future self (should I decide to start from scratch again) here they are summarised with their solutions.
Problem 1 - VS Code and Github
When cloning my new empty repository I was prompted to provide my GitHub username and password. Despite copying them directly from my password manager, I kept getting this error...
remote: Invalid username or password.
A stack overflow reply gave me the solution - create a personal access token on GitHub and then enter that instead of your password when prompted instead of the normal account password. Thank you Oliver š.
Problem 2 - Clearing the VS Code terminal
This one was easy, but I am forgetful so I'm leaving it in.
On Mac you hit CMD+K, but on Windows CTRL+K was doing nothing for me. As I found on their documentation the keyboard shortcuts are easily changed in VS Code, so although it was annoying, it didn't hold me up for too long.
Problem 3 - Running the "gatsby new" command in an existing folder
Cloning my repo meant I had a folder ready to work in, but running the command gatsby new . in the terminal kept giving me an error because the destination path already existed and was not empty (all it had was the hidden git files and a readme markdown).
I couldn't find a good solution for this, so resorted to running the command in a new empty folder, then once it had finished creating the Gatsby files, I just dragged and dropped them into my repo folder.
Problem 4 - Unauthorised access for Gatsby develop command
This happened in my PC, running gatsby develop was giving me a big red error about Microsoft Execution Policies. A stack overflow reply sorted me out for this one - just had to tweak a couple of things in Powershell to get everything permitted, then once done I could run the command with no problems.
Problem 5 - Inline images in Markdown files
This wasn't really a problem per se, more a case of RTFM. Luckily the Gatsby docs are pretty good at explaining how to get an inline image working in your markdown files.
Here's an example of how I used it in my first post, and this one too (see below).
That's all for now, thanks for reading and I hope I helped future me š
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