Gatsby Starter Skeleton

Gatsby Compatibility

Important: This starter has been upgraded to work with Gatsby v2. To use with Gatsby v1 use packages 1.x.x or the for-gatsby-v1 branch.

This is a starter for a static site built with Gatsby. There is a demo version that outlines the features included in this starter here. It's designed as a personal site for a developer or designer, with both Articles and Projects resource types, and tagging and categorising for Articles, however it would work well for anyone looking for a full-featured blog or personal site. The site is responsive, accessible and search-engine friendly.

Quickstart

To build a new Gatsby project using this as your starter:

gatsby new project https://github.com/undistraction/gatsby-starter-skeleton

Configuration

This starter uses a custom configuration which allows for a significant amount of customisation without touching any other parts of the starter. Take a look at src/site-config.js to see the available settings.

Maintainance

Linting

Linting is via ESLint and Prettier, configured in .eslintrc and .prettierrc respectively.

General

Install all NPM modules:

yarn

Run the site on the development server:

yarn run dev

Open development server in default browser (http://localhost:8000):

yarn run open

Build a production version of the site to /public:

yarn run build

Run the built version of the site locally: Note: you need to build the site first.

yarn run serve

Demo

The root project contains very minimal content - just enough to get someone started. However the demo version also acts as documentation, so a separate version must be built and deployed to Github Pages.

This process consists of the following steps:

1. A new Gatsby project is created in ./demo/project, using this project's master branch from Github as its starter.

2. The content for the demo is swapped in for the default content, using the contents of the ./demo/content directory.

3. A pathPrefix config option is injected into gatsby-config.js

4. The demo version is built to ./demo/project/public

5. The demo version is deployed to Github pages.

There are granular commands for each step:

• demo:import
• demo:copy
• demo:build
• demo:deploy
• demo:open

Or the entire process can be run using:

yarn demo

There are also convenience commands for testing the demo locally:

• demo:dev
• `demo:serve