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Personal website and blog

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Built on JAMstack using GatsbyJS.

πŸ“š Features:

  • Landingpage
  • Blog overview page
  • Markdown sourcing from /content folder
  • Estimated reading time for each post
  • Styled components with emotion
  • Netlify deployment friendly
  • Nunito font included as npm module
  • Syntax highlighting with prismjs
  • Textmarkerstyle headings inspired by Basecamp
  • Site meta tags with React Helmet
  • Plugins for offline support
  • Draft blog posts not published

πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’» Customization

Create new pages like an About page in the /pages directory. The minimum code is:

import React from "react"

import Layout from "../components/layout"
import SEO from "../components/seo"

function PageName () {
  let title = 'Page title'
  let keywords = ['page', 'keyword'];

  return (
    <Layout>
      <SEO title={title} keywords={keywords} />
      {/* Add more content here */}
    </Layout>
  );
}

export default PageName

To change the name on the landing page please modify the title in gatsby-config.js

The Nunito typeface is included as a npm module in gatsby-browser.js and in /components/layout.css

πŸš€ Quick start

  1. Install project dependencies

     npm run install
    
  2. Launch the app

     npm run start
    

    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.

    Edit and save files within the project directory in your code editor and the browser will update in real time!

🧐 What's inside?

A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll see in a Gatsby project.

.
β”œβ”€β”€ node_modules
β”œβ”€β”€ src
β”œβ”€β”€ .gitignore
β”œβ”€β”€ .prettierrc
β”œβ”€β”€ gatsby-browser.js
β”œβ”€β”€ gatsby-config.js
β”œβ”€β”€ gatsby-node.js
β”œβ”€β”€ gatsby-ssr.js
β”œβ”€β”€ license
β”œβ”€β”€ package-lock.json
β”œβ”€β”€ package.json
└── readme.md
  1. /node_modules: This directory contains all of the modules of code that your project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed.

  2. /src: This directory will contain all of the code related to what you will see on the front-end of your site (what you see in the browser) such as your site header or a page template. src is a convention for β€œsource code”. A short description of what you can find there is below.πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸ’»

  3. .gitignore: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for.

  4. .prettierrc: This is a configuration file for Prettier. Prettier is a tool to help keep the formatting of your code consistent.

  5. gatsby-browser.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby browser APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting the browser. For example is the Nunito typeface imported here.

  6. gatsby-config.js: This is the main configuration file for a Gatsby site. This is where you can specify information about your site (metadata) like the site title and description, which Gatsby plugins you’d like to include, etc. (Check out the config docs for more detail).

  7. gatsby-node.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby Node APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting pieces of the site build process.

  8. gatsby-ssr.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby server-side rendering APIs (if any). These allow customization of default Gatsby settings affecting server-side rendering.

  9. license: This contains copyright information.

  10. package-lock.json (See package.json below, first). This is an automatically generated file based on the exact versions of your npm dependencies that were installed for your project. (Don’t edit this file directly).

  11. package.json: A manifest file for Node.js projects, which includes things like metadata (the project’s name, author, etc). This manifest is how npm knows which packages to install for your project.

  12. readme.md: A text file containing useful reference information about your project.

The src directory

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β”œβ”€β”€ components
β”œβ”€β”€ content
β”œβ”€β”€ images
β”œβ”€β”€ pages
└── templates
  1. /components: Your React components can be defined here. You can include them from there in your pages.

  2. /content: The filesystem plugin is configured to get the *.md files from here. These will be published on the /blog page.

  3. /images: This directory is the home for your images that you can query via GraphQL since the filesystem plugin publish them there.

  4. /pages: Here is where your pages like /blog, /about and also the 404 page lives. An example of the basic structure can be found above.

  5. /templates: You will find the blog-post.js template there which defines how every blog-post page is structured.

πŸŽ“ Learning Gatsby

Looking for more guidance? The perfect place to learn more about GatsbyJS is the website. Here are some places to start:

  • For most developers, we recommend starting with our in-depth tutorial for creating a site with Gatsby. It starts with zero assumptions about your level of ability and walks through every step of the process.

  • To dive straight into code samples, head to our documentation. In particular, check out the Guides, API Reference, and Advanced Tutorials sections in the sidebar.

πŸ’« Deploy

You can also directly deploy this starter via Netlify.

Deploy to Netlify