Custom template page is not showing on localhost

[cginerorienteed]

Expected behavior

When a custom page is created, you can test it locally, with the corresponding url

Actual behavior

After a custom page is created, the corresponding url keeps showing the default "template layout file" on localhost.

Steps to reproduce behavior

1. Create a custom directory and a new html file, following the docs guidelines. pages>custom>page>customPage.html . Leave this file empty for demonstration purposes.

2. Add new keys to the config.sencil.json :

{
  "customLayouts": {
    "brand": {},
    "category": {},
    "page": {
      "customPage.html": "/customPage/"
    },
    "product": {}
  },
  "normalStoreUrl": "https://xxx.mybigcommerce.com",
  "port": "3000"
}

3. Make sure you have created a new page with the matching url on the admin panel.
   

4. Restart the server with -> stencil start.

5. Go to https://localhost:3000/customPage/ to see if the changes are applied. You should see a blank page as there is nothing on the empty file.

Environment

Stencil-cli version stencil --version: 5.3.3

Node version node -v: 14.20.0

NPM version npm -v: 6.14.17

OS: windows

[codal-nilayp]

@cginerorienteed I hope you have created a custom directory inside the templates/pages directory. Inside it, you created the page directory, and then inside the page directory, you created the customPage.html file.
So it should be like templates/pages/custom/page/customPage.html.

[hunterashaw]

I was able to reproduce this error for a custom category page using @bigcommerce/stencil-cli@5.3.3

[rohan-cam]

I also had this problem using 5.3.3 and yes @codal-nilayp, I followed the directions as per the BC documentation

To actually move forward with the theme building I had to revert to using @bigcommerce/stencil-cli@5.3.2

[StrangeWill]

I'm also having this problem on 8.8.6, I cannot install 5.3.2 to verify that the issue is fixed way back then.

Possibly related to #1023, #982 -- digging more, trailing slashes don't seem to have any affect though.

[StrangeWill]

Nix that, documentation isn't clear -- the local override is just for the template override only, it doesn't force a page to exist where it doesn't.

Confirmed this is working fine on 8.8.6.