Gatsby Theme Chronogrove

A beautiful Gatsby theme for personal websites and blogs with built-in social media widgets. Features a dashboard-style home page that showcases your recent activity across multiple platforms.

✨ Features

• Dashboard Home Page: Social media widgets and recent posts
• Blog Support: MDX content with syntax highlighting
• Dark/Light Mode: Theme UI with color mode toggle
• Responsive Design: Mobile-first responsive layout
• SEO Optimized: Structured data and meta tags
• Performance: Lazy loading and optimized images
• Accessibility: ARIA labels and keyboard navigation
• Navigation System: Configurable navigation with GraphQL integration
• Error Handling: Robust error handling and fallbacks
• Testing: Comprehensive test suite with 459 passing tests

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

npm install gatsby-theme-chronogrove
# or
yarn add gatsby-theme-chronogrove

Basic Configuration

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: 'gatsby-theme-chronogrove',
      options: {
        siteMetadata: {
          title: 'My Personal Website',
          description: 'A personal website and blog',
          headline: 'My Name',
          subhead: 'Personal blog and portfolio'
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

⚙️ Configuration

The theme uses a modular configuration system that allows you to customize every aspect of your site through theme options.

Site Metadata

{
  resolve: 'gatsby-theme-chronogrove',
  options: {
    siteMetadata: {
      // Core site information
      title: 'My Personal Website',
      description: 'A personal website and blog',
      siteUrl: 'https://example.com',
      baseURL: 'https://example.com',
      languageCode: 'en',

      // Personal branding
      headline: 'My Name',
      subhead: 'Personal blog and portfolio',
      avatarURL: '/images/avatar.jpg',
      imageURL: '/images/og-image.png',

      // Contact information (hCard microformat)
      hCard: {
        email: '[email protected]',
        givenName: 'Given',
        familyName: 'Name',
        locality: 'City',
        region: 'ST',
        countryName: 'Country',
        category: 'Professional Title',
        photoURL: '/images/avatar.jpg'
      },

      // Social media
      social: {
        twitterUsername: '@username'
      },

      // Footer
      footerText: 'Made with ❤️',

      // SEO
      titleTemplate: '%s · My Website'
    }
  }
}

Navigation Configuration

Customize your site's navigation menu:

{
  resolve: 'gatsby-theme-chronogrove',
  options: {
    navigation: {
      header: {
        // Main navigation links (top of page)
        left: [
          {
            path: '/about',
            slug: 'about',
            text: 'About',
            title: 'About Me'
          },
          {
            path: '/blog',
            slug: 'blog',
            text: 'Blog',
            title: 'Latest posts from the blog'
          },
          {
            path: '/projects',
            slug: 'projects',
            text: 'Projects',
            title: 'My projects'
          }
        ],
        // Home page navigation (dashboard sections)
        home: [
          {
            path: '#github',
            slug: 'github',
            text: 'GitHub',
            title: 'GitHub Activity'
          },
          {
            path: '#instagram',
            slug: 'instagram',
            text: 'Instagram',
            title: 'Instagram Photos'
          },
          {
            path: '#goodreads',
            slug: 'goodreads',
            text: 'Goodreads',
            title: 'Reading Activity'
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Widget Configuration

Configure social media widgets for your dashboard:

{
  resolve: 'gatsby-theme-chronogrove',
  options: {
    widgets: {
      github: {
        username: 'your-github-username',
        widgetDataSource: 'https://your-api.com/widgets/github'
      },
      instagram: {
        username: 'your-instagram-username',
        widgetDataSource: 'https://your-api.com/widgets/instagram'
      },
      goodreads: {
        username: 'your-goodreads-username',
        widgetDataSource: 'https://your-api.com/widgets/goodreads'
      },
      spotify: {
        username: 'your-spotify-username',
        widgetDataSource: 'https://your-api.com/widgets/spotify'
      },
      steam: {
        username: 'your-steam-username',
        widgetDataSource: 'https://your-api.com/widgets/steam'
      },
      flickr: {
        username: 'your-flickr-username',
        widgetDataSource: 'https://your-api.com/widgets/flickr'
      }
    }
  }
}

📝 Content

Blog Posts

Create blog posts using MDX in your content/blog/ directory:

---
title: 'My First Blog Post'
date: '2024-01-01'
category: 'blog'
slug: 'my-first-post'
---

# My First Blog Post

This is my first blog post using Gatsby Theme Chronogrove!

## Features

- **MDX Support**: Write in Markdown with React components
- **Syntax Highlighting**: Code blocks with Prism.js
- **Responsive Images**: Optimized images with Gatsby Image
- **SEO**: Automatic meta tags and structured data

Music Posts

Create music posts in your content/music/ directory:

---
title: 'My New Song'
date: '2024-01-01'
category: 'music'
slug: 'my-new-song'
---

# My New Song

Listen to my latest track!

<Spotify trackId='4iV5W9uYEdYUVa79Axb7Rh' />

🎨 Customization

Styling

The theme uses Theme UI for styling. You can customize the theme by shadowing the theme file:

// src/gatsby-theme-chronogrove/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui/index.js
import { theme } from 'gatsby-theme-chronogrove/src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui'

export default {
  ...theme,
  colors: {
    ...theme.colors,
    primary: '#007acc',
    secondary: '#ff6b6b'
  }
}

Components

Shadow any component by creating a file with the same name in your src/gatsby-theme-chronogrove/components/ directory:

// src/gatsby-theme-chronogrove/components/home-header-content.js
import React from 'react'

export default function HomeHeaderContent() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Custom Header Content</h1>
      <p>This replaces the default header content.</p>
    </div>
  )
}

🔧 Development

Local Development

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/chrisvogt/gatsby-theme-chronogrove.git
cd gatsby-theme-chronogrove

# Install dependencies
yarn install

# Start development server
yarn workspace www.chrisvogt.me develop

Testing

The theme includes comprehensive testing with 459 passing tests:

# Run all tests
yarn test

# Run tests in watch mode
yarn test:watch

# Generate coverage report
yarn test:coverage

Test Coverage:

• ✅ 79 test suites passing
• ✅ 459 individual tests passing
• ✅ 69 snapshot tests
• ✅ GraphQL mocking for Gatsby components
• ✅ Navigation component testing
• ✅ Widget component testing

📦 Available Widgets

GitHub Widget

• Profile statistics
• Pinned repositories
• Recent pull requests
• Activity timeline

Instagram Widget

• Recent photos
• Lightbox gallery
• Engagement metrics
• Profile information

Goodreads Widget

• Currently reading
• Recently read books
• Reading progress
• Book recommendations

Spotify Widget

• Top tracks
• Playlists
• Recently played
• Audio previews

Steam Widget

• Recently played games
• Game statistics
• AI-generated summaries
• Time tracking

Flickr Widget

• Photo galleries
• Image collections
• Photo metadata
• Lightbox gallery

🔧 Recent Improvements (v0.51.0)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed failing unit tests: Resolved GraphQL errors in test environment
• Fixed navigation data handling: Updated useNavigationData hook to return empty object when navigation data is missing
• Improved test reliability: Added proper mocking for Gatsby's useStaticQuery and graphql in component tests

Technical Improvements

• Enhanced test coverage for navigation components
• Improved error handling in navigation data hooks
• Better separation of concerns between theme and site-specific configuration

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Gatsby - Static site generator
• Theme UI - Design system
• MDX - Markdown with JSX
• FontAwesome - Icons

📞 Support

• Documentation: GitHub Wiki
• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions
• Changelog: CHANGELOG.md - Complete version history

Made with ❤️ by Chris Vogt

Current Version: v0.51.0