/gatsby-starter-blog

Gatsby starter for creating a blog with Flotiq

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Gatsby Starter - Blog

This is a Gatsby starter project for a blog. It's configured to pull blog posts data from Flotiq and can be easily deployed to your cloud hosting - Heroku, Netlify, Gatsby Cloud, etc.

Live Demo: https://flotiq-blog.herokuapp.com/

Screenshot

See how this blog is built and deployed on Heroku:

Build a blog with Flotiq, GatsbyJS and Heroku

Quick start

  1. Start project from template using Gatsby CLI

    gatsby new my-blog-starter https://github.com/flotiq/gatsby-starter-blog

  2. Setup "Blog Post" Content Type in Flotiq

    Create your Flotiq.com account. Next, create the Blog Post Content Type:

    Blog Post content type in flotiq

    Note: You can also create Blog Post using Flotiq REST API.

  3. Configure application

    The next step is to configure our application to know from where it has to fetch the data.

    You need to create a file called .env inside the root of the directory, with the following structure:

    GATSBY_FLOTIQ_BASE_URL=https://api.flotiq.com
FLOTIQ_API_KEY=YOUR FLOTIQ API KEY

  4. Start developing

    Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.

    cd my-blog-starter/
npm install
gatsby develop

    If you wish to import example blog posts to your account, before running gatsby develop run:

    node ./example/importExample.js

    It will add 1 image and 2 blog posts to your Flotiq account.

    Note: You need to put your Read and write API key in .env for import to work. You don't need Blog Post content type in your account. If you already have posts with ids blogpost-1 and blogpost-2 they will be overwritten.

  5. Open the source code and start editing!

    Your site is now running at http://localhost:8000!

    Note: You'll also see a second link: http://localhost:8000/___graphql`. This is a tool you can use to experiment with querying your data. Learn more about using this tool in the Gatsby tutorial.

    Open a project directory in your code editor of choice and edit src/templates/index.js. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!

  6. Manage your posts using Flotiq editor

    You can now easily manage your posts using Flotiq editor

    Managing posts using Flotiq

Deploy

You can deploy this project to Heroku in 3 minutes:

Deploy

Or to Netlify:

Deploy

Collaborating

If you wish to to talk with us about this project, feel free to hop on our discord server.

If you found a bug, please report it in issues.