Errors even when no code present: Call stack size / cannot read property

Description

I have an issue I need help with that seems to have popped up a few times over the years. I have burned 8 hours, one full work day, and this is too much.

Backstory: Have a working page that needed updates. Unfortunately for some reason, after 2.5 months of no updates and no changes, it has stopped building, on both netlify and local development, throwing either a) RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded b) TypeError: Cannot read property 'internal' of null

Steps to reproduce

• Clone https://github.com/inblock-io/inblock
• npm install
• you will need the following add these access tokens to (these are Ok to post> spaceid: lil8n4syivvk , content api access token: rJ6yJJXuukb5K7ghg761Aj0w0rvcOKTwSeKHxcztYLI) to the .contentful.json.sample file in the project root and REMOVE the .sample extension

Expected result

npm run dev -> content pulled from contentful, everybody happy, page is served

Actual result

a) RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded b) TypeError: Cannot read property 'internal' of null

Environment

System: OS: Windows 10 10.0.19041 CPU: (12) x64 Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz Binaries: Node: 10.13.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE npm: 6.4.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD Browsers: Chrome: 86.0.4240.75 Edge: Spartan (44.19041.423.0), Chromium (86.0.622.38) npmPackages: gatsby: ^1.9.279 => 1.9.279 gatsby-image: ^1.0.55 => 1.0.55 gatsby-link: ^1.6.46 => 1.6.46 gatsby-plugin-react-helmet: ^1.0.8 => 1.0.8 gatsby-plugin-sharp: ^1.6.46 => 1.6.48 gatsby-source-contentful: ^1.3.54 => 1.3.54 gatsby-transformer-remark: ^1.7.44 => 1.7.44 npmGlobalPackages: gatsby: 2.24.53

Commentary

1st I thought it might be this behind it: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/639a0ca2cffc8009602b808cc165c74ff4ce5dc5/packages/gatsby-plugin-react-helmet/README.md#compatibility-with-react-168-useeffect-hook

• But the project uses React 15.x 2nd I thought it might be this: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/6949#issuecomment-477463165
• No content has been removed on contentful … it is a mystery.

How can I find out what the hell is going on? If this is an offending, failing graphQL query, how do i troubleshoot if I cannot even get graphiql locally?

[axe312ger]

@le-dawg thank you! reopening!

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