Gatsby Starter Simple
A simple blogging Gatsby starter
Overview
This is a minimal blogging starter that uses Gatsby, a static site generator. It includes several plugins to enhance the functionality of the blog, such as styled-components for styling, gatsby-plugin-google-analytics for tracking page views, gatsby-plugin-disqus for enabling comments on blog posts, and gatsby-transformer-remark for transforming markdown files into blog posts. It also has gatsby-plugin-offline for offline support and gatsby-plugin-sass for using Sass as the CSS preprocessor.
Features
- Pagination: Allows for pagination of blog posts.
- Dark/Light Mode Toggling: Provides the ability to switch between dark and light themes.
- Headless CMS Support: Supports integration with headless CMS platforms for managing blog content.
Summary
This minimal blogging starter provides a simple and clean template for creating a blog with Gatsby. It includes key features such as pagination, dark/light mode toggling, and headless CMS support. The installation process is straightforward, requiring the installation of the Gatsby CLI and the creation of a new Gatsby site using the starter. Overall, this starter provides a solid foundation for building a minimal and customizable blog using Gatsby.
- 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
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- 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.
- Styled Components
Styled Components is a popular library for styling React components using CSS syntax. It allows you to write CSS in your JavaScript code, making it easier to create dynamic styles that are specific to each component.
- GitHub Pages
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