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Strapi Starter Gatsby Blog

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Strapi Starter Gatsby Blog

Gatsby starter for creating a static blog with Strapi.

This starter allows you to try Strapi with Gatsby with the example of a simple static blog. It is fully customizable and due to the fact that it is open source, fully open to contributions. Do not hesitate to add new features etc ...

You may want to know how to develop such a starter by your own! This starter is actually the result of this tutorial

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Deploy the backend

To deploy this Strapi instance you'll need:

Once you have created these accounts you can deploy your instance by clicking on this button

Deploy

Features

  • 2 Content types: Article, Category
  • 2 Created articles
  • 3 Created categories
  • Permissions set to true for article and category
  • Responsive design using UIkit

Pages

  • "/" display every articles
  • "/article/:id" display one article
  • "/category/:id" display articles depending on the category

Getting started

Clone the repository and install dependencies

git clone https://github.com/strapi/strapi-starter-gatsby-blog.git
cd strapi-starter-gatsby-blog

Start the backend server

cd backend

# Using yarn
yarn
yarn develop

# Using npm
npm install
npm run develop

Start the frontend server

cd frontend

# Using yarn
yarn
yarn develop

# Using npm
npm install
npm run develop

Gatsby server is running here => http://localhost:8000 Strapi server is running here => http://localhost:1337

Gatsby Cloud

You may want to deploy this starter frontend on Gatsby Cloud in order to try the Gatsby Preview maybe!

  • Fork this starter on your own Github account
  • Create a new site by choosing the option "I already have a Gatsby site"

Create a New site

You'll be asked to select the repository you want to use

  • Select your new Strapi Starter Gatsby Blog repository you just forked and specify the Gatsby project folder which is frontend in this starter

Repository

  • You can then copy the webhook url and skip this step

Skip step

  • Paste your Strapi API_URL for both of your Builds Environment variables and Preview Environment variables (we consider that you deployed your strapi server)

Env

Now you'll need to create a Webhook on your strapi server in order to tell Gatsby cloud to build your Gatsby project each time your create/update/delete content

  • Open your Strapi admin panel and go to Webhooks
  • Create a new Webhook with following properties:
    • Name: Gatsby Cloud
    • Url: The first Webhook Url Gatsby Cloud provide in your Gatsby Dashboard Sites. It should be something like this: https://webhook.gatsbyjs.com/hooks/data_source/ without the /publish/
    • Check every Events for Entry and Media

That's it! Now Strapi will inform Gatsby Cloud to build your Gatsby project everytime you create/update/delete content

Env

Enjoy this starter