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The "Edit this page" links were built by guessing the source file from the page's URL/path. That broke for MDX-backed pages, encoded paths, and anything whose route didn't match its file location, so links pointed to 404s or the wrong file.
This PR removes the guessing and resolves the real source file instead:
Reads the actual source file from __contentFilePath (set by Gatsby's MDX plugin on the page component) when present, instead of inferring it from the route
Normalizes the path to be repository-relative and preserves valid relative paths
Ignores generated and excluded directories (e.g. .cache, public, node_modules)
Rejects paths that resolve outside the repository root, so no unsafe or misleading links are generated
Rejects paths to files that don't exist, so we never link to a missing file
Encodes each path segment correctly for GitHub URLs (spaces, +, and other special characters), while keeping / separators intact
Generates the correct GitHub URL for both file (/blob or /edit) and directory (/tree) cases
Adds regression tests covering expected URL generation and the edge cases above
Testing
I ran this locally, and the edit link now points to the correct MDX file for the page. The path guessing is gone, and links no longer break for MDX pages or paths with special characters.
Notes for Reviewers
Confirm the edit-link logic resolves repository-relative source files correctly for MDX-backed pages.
Validate that paths outside the repo, ignored directories, and missing files are rejected safely.
Check the unit tests covering encoded paths, spaces, plus signs, and directory/file URL generation.
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Gatsby now derives edit URLs from page component source paths and adds available URLs to page context. The wrapper passes page context through Layout to Footer. Footer shows “Edit This Page” only when an edit URL is available.
Changes: Source-based edit links
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Resolve and validate source paths src/utils/edit-link.js, src/utils/edit-link.test.js, package.json
The utility extracts component source paths, checks repository boundaries and file existence, and generates GitHub URLs. Tests cover source extraction, URL formats, and rejected paths. The unit test script now runs these tests.
Pass edit URLs to the footer gatsby-node.js, page-wrapper.js, src/components/layout.js, src/sections/General/Footer/index.js
Gatsby adds an available edit URL to page context. The wrapper and Layout pass it to Footer. Footer uses the supplied URL and omits the link when the URL is absent. The previous route-based resolver is removed.
The new "Edit This Page" link will not appear on blog, resource, and handbook pages that gatsby-node.js creates programmatically. This falls short of the PR's goal, but nothing breaks and the link is simply hidden. Set the edit URL in the local createPage wrapper before merging.
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The edit-link implementation and its tests stay within [#8249]. The PR also includes unrelated formatting-only changes: the newsletter label is split across lines in `src/sections/General/Footer/index…
Remove the unrelated newsletter-label and <Navigation /> formatting changes, or provide a direct requirement that needs them.
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The title is related to the main change: fixing the “Edit This Page” link behavior. It is broad but still identifies the affected feature clearly enough.
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The PR meets the coding requirements in [#8249]. onCreatePage resolves editUrl from the page component and passes it through pageContext. sourceFromComponent uses __contentFilePath for MDX p…
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The PR meets the coding requirements in [#8249]. onCreatePage resolves editUrl from the page component and passes it through pageContext. sourceFromComponent uses __contentFilePath for MDX pages and uses the component path for direct sources. toEditUrl rejects missing sources, template-only sources, paths outside the repository, ignored directories, and nonexistent files. It generates encoded blob and tree URLs. Footer hides the link when no URL exists. The unit tests cover MDX sources, directory routes, path encoding, plus signs, and rejection cases.
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The edit-link implementation and its tests stay within [#8249]. The PR also includes unrelated formatting-only changes: the newsletter label is split across lines in src/sections/General/Footer/index.js, and <Navigation/> is reformatted in src/components/layout.js. These changes do not support source resolution or edit-link behavior.
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Remove the unrelated newsletter-label and <Navigation /> formatting changes, or provide a direct requirement that needs them.
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- Around line 18-31: Update sourceFromComponent to prefer the raw content path
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Hey @Pranav-Kunjir This looks like a solid fix for the broken edit links, and the build-time resolution approach is much better than guessing paths from URLs. One thing to address before merging is the raw-versus-decoded path handling in sourceFromComponent(). Could you verify both candidates against the repo root and add a regression test for the case where only the decoded path exists? After that, a quick check of a few MDX and directory-based routes in the preview would make this PR closer to be merged.
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- Around line 36-39: Update the edit-link source resolution so queryless paths
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@PARTH-TUSSLE thanks for the review
Done — addressed the template-as-fallback issue.
toEditUrl() now rejects queryless components under src/templates/ (e.g. lite-placeholder.js, blog-category-list.js, tag-list templates) so rendering templates are never surfaced as "Edit This Page" sources, while:
queryless direct sources stay eligible (src/pages/pricing/index.js, src/collections/members, etc.), and
any component carrying __contentFilePath is always kept, regardless of location.
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A few things worth checking :
Page creation coverage: There is still a direct actions.createPage() call around gatsby-node.js:822 outside the new wrapper. Could you verify whether this page receives editUrl through the Gatsby lifecycle, or route it through the wrapper where appropriate?
Path validation: Consider resolving real filesystem paths with fs.realpathSync() before checking repository containment, to account for symbolic links pointing outside the repository.
Query parsing: sourceFromComponent() currently extracts __contentFilePath using string slicing and assumes the export parameter follows it. Using more robust parameter extraction would avoid issues if query ordering changes.
Integration testing: The utility tests cover the major path-resolution cases well. It would be useful to verify actual footer links on representative MDX-backed pages, directory-based routes, and regular Gatsby pages.
Thanks @Pranav-Kunjir, this is a nice fix. Working out the edit link at build time from the actual source file is much better than guessing it from the URL.
I checked the hook wiring and it looks correct. Both onCreatePage and the createPage wrapper are needed, because Gatsby skips a plugin's own onCreatePage for pages it created. The call around gatsby-node.js:808 also goes through the wrapper.
A few small things before merge:
Merge conflict in package.json: master added src/utils/resources-url.test.js to test:unit, so please keep both entries.
Remove the tree branch: a page component is always a file, so the statSync().isDirectory() check never triggers. Always using blob is enough.
Revert the formatting-only changes: the newsletter line break in Footer/index.js, in layout.js, and the page-wrapper.js reformat (apart from the pageContext prop). They're unrelated to the fix.
Once the conflict is fixed, this looks good to merge from my side.
- Always use blob (page components are always files, never directories)
- Revert formatting-only changes in page-wrapper, layout, and Footer
Signed-off-by: Pranav Kunjir <pranavkunjir93@gmail.com>
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Description
This PR fixes #8249.
The "Edit this page" links were built by guessing the source file from the page's URL/path. That broke for MDX-backed pages, encoded paths, and anything whose route didn't match its file location, so links pointed to 404s or the wrong file.
This PR removes the guessing and resolves the real source file instead:
__contentFilePath(set by Gatsby's MDX plugin on the page component) when present, instead of inferring it from the route.cache,public,node_modules)+, and other special characters), while keeping/separators intact/blobor/edit) and directory (/tree) casesTesting
I ran this locally, and the edit link now points to the correct MDX file for the page. The path guessing is gone, and links no longer break for MDX pages or paths with special characters.
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