Documentation is wrong for initialising the plugin.

[darylthornhill]

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Summary

When including the code as per the docs it actually errors saying adapter is not a function.

const adapter = require('gatsby-adapter-netlify');

module.exports = {
    adapter: adapter({
        excludeDatastoreFromEngineFunction: false,
    }),
}

Im assuming this is because if you import it will grab the .default manually

Steps to Resolve this Issue

1. use import instead
2. add .default at the end of require

[fturmel]

Same issue with import and an esm gatsby-config.mjs file (supported since Gatsby 5.3).

I tried import adapter from 'gatsby-adapter-netlify'; and import { default as adapter } from 'gatsby-adapter-netlify'; but get the following error:

ERROR #10123  API.CONFIG.LOADING

We encountered an error while trying to load your site's gatsby-config. Please fix the error and try again.

TypeError: adapter is not a function
  
  - gatsby-config.mjs:13 
    {project-path}/gatsby-config.mjs:13:12
  
  - module_job:194 ModuleJob.run
    node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:194:25

[RectoVersoDev]

Same issue here, can't make it work with gatsby 5.12.9

error We encountered an error while trying to load your site"s gatsby-config. Please fix the error and try again.
TypeError: adapter is not a function

[JohanForngren]

const adapter = require("gatsby-adapter-netlify").default as @darylthornhill suggested is propsed in PR #38816

[logemann]

Is there any reason why this isnt fixed in the docs? Annoying to search around for basic things like that....