Build: Netlify Plugin manifest.yaml not found.

Created on 4 Dec 2020 · 6Comments · Source: netlify/build

Similar bug as to #1373

I posted on the issue there my configuration, and project structure.
https://github.com/netlify/build/issues/1373#issuecomment-738602934

Describe the bug
When trying to use a local plugin the manifest.yaml will not be found but manifest.yml will work.

Most documentation out in the wild I was using showed the manifest.yaml as opposes to .yml.

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phortonssf

Most helpful comment

Our "main" docs do cite .yml and most of our other company blog entries do too (https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/05/20/whats-a-netlify-build-plugin-series-part-2-making-build-plugins/).

I can start the process to update or request an update to the reference to manifest.yaml in https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/04/21/deploying-nx-monorepos-to-netlify/. From a search of our blog content repo, that seems to be the only Netlify blog entry with yaml instead of yml.

It does seem, however, that supporting manifest.yaml as a fallback would be a good idea for a more delightful user experience.

rstavchansky on 7 Dec 2020

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Thanks for the information @phortonssf!

Could you please provide with some links of this documentation using the wrong filename? We should update it.

ehmicky on 4 Dec 2020

@ehmicky It was more articles written by netlify than THE actual netlify docs. For example:
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/04/21/deploying-nx-monorepos-to-netlify/

There were some other articles as well when I was troubleshooting the issue. When I went to the docs I did not really consider the difference from .yaml and .yml being that most libraries in my experience support either. So that is my fault for assuming thank you for the response.

phortonssf on 6 Dec 2020

Thanks for the additional insights @phortonssf.

It seems to me keeping a single filename in our documentation would be simpler.
On the other hand, this does not prevent us from adding manifest.yaml as a fallback.

@verythorough @rstavchansky What are your thoughts on this?

ehmicky on 7 Dec 2020

Our "main" docs do cite .yml and most of our other company blog entries do too (https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/05/20/whats-a-netlify-build-plugin-series-part-2-making-build-plugins/).

It does seem, however, that supporting manifest.yaml as a fallback would be a good idea for a more delightful user experience.

rstavchansky on 7 Dec 2020

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Agreed with @rstavchansky on all points!

I'm going to remove the needs docs label since it looks like the one blog post update has been merged, and I agree that a single file type is sufficient (and preferable) for the docs.

@ehmicky shall we use this issue to track adding a manifest.yaml fallback to the build system?