Ardalis Com Gatsby
Back end content for ardalis.com running with Netlify and Gatsby.
Overview
The Ardalis Blog Starter, built on Gatsby and powered by Netlify CMS, offers a streamlined approach to creating a fast and efficient JAMstack website. Designed for businesses, it provides a practical solution for those looking to launch a blog or a simple landing page without diving deep into complex configurations. The integration of Git as a single source of truth ensures that content can be easily managed, while Netlify handles the continuous deployment and content delivery network (CDN) for optimal performance.
This starter boasts an enhanced user experience with blazing fast loading times and impressive SEO scores, making it ideal for developers and businesses alike who want a quick, adaptable solution for their web presence. Whether you're a seasoned developer or a newcomer, this starter simplifies the process of getting a professional website online.
Features
- Editable Pages: Customize your landing, about, product, blog collection, and contact pages with built-in Netlify Form support.
- Blog Functionality: Effortlessly create and manage blog posts using Netlify CMS, including a dedicated page for posts organized by tags.
- Optimized Performance: Enjoy blazing fast loading times through pre-rendered HTML and automatic chunk loading of JavaScript files.
- Styled with Bulma: Implements Bulma framework for styling, while the purge-css-plugin minimizes unused CSS for greater efficiency.
- SEO Excellence: Achieves a perfect score on Lighthouse for SEO, accessibility, and performance, ensuring your site ranks well in search results.
- Seamless Netlify Integration: Streamlined deployment and configuration with Netlify, including support for serverless functions using the lambda folder.
- Local Development Simplified: Easily test and run the CMS locally with a straightforward setup that leverages the Netlify Dev CLI feature.
- Robust Media Libraries: Built-in support for media libraries like Uploadcare and Cloudinary, allowing for efficient media management if needed.
- Gatsby
GatsbyJS is a free and open-source static site generator based on React. It uses a modern development stack including Webpack, GraphQL, and modern JavaScript and CSS frameworks. It also provides a rich set of plugins, starters, and themes.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Bulma
Bulma is a free, open source CSS framework based on Flexbox and built with Sass. It's 100% responsive, fully modular, and available for free.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Netlify
Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.
- Prism JS
PrismJS is an open-source, lightweight, and extensible syntax highlighting library that supports a wide range of programming languages and markup formats.