From a1fe552fc9e622a15010a94281f604eb85bebd84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rn=20Erik=20Pedersen?=
 <bjorn.erik.pedersen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:09:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix nilpointer in js.Build error handling

Fixes #8162
---
 resources/resource_transformers/js/build.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/resources/resource_transformers/js/build.go b/resources/resource_transformers/js/build.go
index 0d70bdc337f..ee60aa502ec 100644
--- a/resources/resource_transformers/js/build.go
+++ b/resources/resource_transformers/js/build.go
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 package js
 
 import (
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
@@ -22,6 +21,8 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+
 	"github.com/spf13/afero"
 
 	"github.com/gohugoio/hugo/hugofs"
@@ -108,6 +109,9 @@ func (t *buildTransformation) Transform(ctx *resources.ResourceTransformationCtx
 
 		createErr := func(msg api.Message) error {
 			loc := msg.Location
+			if loc == nil {
+				return errors.New(msg.Text)
+			}
 			path := loc.File
 
 			var (