Gatsby Starter Fresh

A starter blog skeleton using the Fresh Theme for Gatsby. The starter is created from my own personal website originally inspired from the Fresh theme. The project aims to provide minimal base for building a user-friendly and fast blogging site for anyone.

Features

Built with GatsbyJS
Blazing fast loading time
Mobile Friendly
High quality code (A)
Component seperated code
Custom 404 page
In-built contact form powered by Formspree
Markdown support for new posts
Code syntax highlighting
Disqus support for comments
Supports PWA
Social Media icons
SEO friendly
- option to add meta description
- Sitemap Generation
- Twitter tags (Twitter cards)
Google Analytics

🚀 Quick start

Install this starter locally (assuming you have GatsbyJS installed)

gatsby new gatsby-starter-fresh https://github.com/mishal23/gatsby-starter-fresh

Start developing by navigating in your site directory and start it up

cd gatsby-starter-fresh/
gatsby develop

The site would be running live on http://localhost:8000. Open the gatsby-starter-fresh directory in a code editor of your choice and edit gatsby-config.js with your details:

Name
Description
Keywords
Social media usernames (twitter, facebook, github, email, linkedin, formspree)
Disqus shortname at gatsby-plugin-disqus plugin
trackingID at gatsby-plugin-google-analytics plugin

Feel free to create new posts in the src/posts directory. The changes will be reflected in real-time on your browser.

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Contributing

Incase you wish to add any features, please fork the project, make the changes and send a Pull Request.

git clone https://github.com/<your username>/gatsby-starter-fresh
cd gatsby-starter-fresh
npm install
gatsby develop

You can also write by opening an issue on the repository, incase of any issues.

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