From 552e10451676e0b1fdafaa7fd45b6d32171c6289 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nate Stewart <nate.stewart@bigcommerce.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:16:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Graceful fallback for locale pages that don't exist

---
 pages/[...pages].tsx | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pages/[...pages].tsx b/pages/[...pages].tsx
index ad67d581a..0c1e5425c 100644
--- a/pages/[...pages].tsx
+++ b/pages/[...pages].tsx
@@ -19,11 +19,15 @@ export async function getStaticProps({
   const data =
     pageItem &&
     (await getPage({ variables: { id: pageItem.id! }, config, preview }))
-  const page = data?.page
+  let page = data?.page
 
   if (!page) {
-    // We throw to make sure this fails at build time as this is never expected to happen
-    throw new Error(`Page with slug '${slug}' not found`)
+    // Fallback to generating a page with direction to fix missing content for locale, so build process can continue
+    page = {
+      ...pages[0],
+      url: slug,
+      body: `*Missing content for locale* Add page with slug of ${slug} to resolve.`
+    }
   }
 
   return {