Hello Gatsby Starter
Hello Gatsby Starter - template for creating a corporate, marketing or blog site using Gatsby, Typescript and TailwindCSS.
Overview
The Gatsby Starter template is a powerful and flexible foundation for building a marketing and blog website. Leveraging the JAMstack architecture, it is designed to provide developers and content creators with all the essential tools needed to create an interactive and visually appealing online presence. The combination of Gatsby, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS not only ensures a modern development experience but also a highly optimized output, making it an excellent choice for anyone looking to establish their website or blog effortlessly.
With a focus on both functionality and aesthetics, this starter template integrates rich features that streamline both the development process and user experience. From powerful SEO support to customizable components, it allows for diverse configurations while providing built-in support for dynamic content creation and deployment.
Features
- Full-Featured Blog: Comes with frontmatter support for titles, descriptions, authors, dates, images, and tags, along with pagination for seamless navigation.
- Dynamic Tag Pages: Automatically generates tag index pages and individual tag pages for organized content categorization.
- SEO Optimization: Built-in support for SEO through React Helmet, including Open Graph, Twitter Cards, and Schema.org integration for enhanced visibility.
- Image Optimization: Automatically optimizes images in Markdown/MDX posts for improved load times and performance.
- Contact Form Integration: Easily set up a contact form using SendGrid email services, enhancing user engagement and communication.
- Customizable Design: Offers SVG design options using unDraw, Hero Patterns, and HeroIcons to create visually appealing layouts.
- Rapid Development: With support for code syntax highlighting and MDX/Markdown content creation, developing and managing your site is streamlined.
- Offline Support: Includes manifest and offline support ensuring that users can access your site even without a stable internet connection.
- 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
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Headless UI
Headless UI is a set of completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components for React, Vue, and Alpine.js that empower developers to build their own fully accessible custom UI components. Headless UI allows developers to focus on building accessible and highly functional user interfaces, without the need to worry about styling or layout.
- Blog
Blog websites feature posts written by one or more authors, organized by categories and tags, with a section for comments and archives sorted by date or topic. Additional features may include search bar, social media sharing, subscription or RSS feed, about and contact pages, and visual content.
- Templates & Themes
A template or theme refers to a pre-designed layout or structure that provides a basic framework for building a specific type of application or website. It typically includes good design, placeholder content and functional features, allowing developers to customize and fill in the details according to their specific needs.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- GitHub Pages
Gridsome is a Vue.js-based static site generator that makes it easy to build fast and flexible websites and applications by leveraging modern web technologies like GraphQL, Webpack, and hot reloading
- MDX
MDX is a format that allows developers to write JSX within Markdown documents, combining the power of React with the simplicity of Markdown. This allows for the creation of dynamic and interactive content that can be easily shared and consumed across different platforms and devices.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- React Hook Form
React Hook Form is a performant, flexible, and extensible form library for React with easy validation. It reduces re-renders and improves performance by using uncontrolled components and native HTML validation, making form handling simple and efficient.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.