Gatsby Starter Modern
DEPRECATED. Please use gatsby-starter-strict instead, see the linked website!
Overview
The gatsby-starter-modern is a modern starter kit designed for developers looking to create a streamlined and efficient Gatsby site. Built with strict linting and auto-formatting rules, it aims to uphold code quality while providing a pleasant developer experience. This project stands out as a comprehensive starter solution that leverages popular tools and best practices in the web development community.
By utilizing well-known libraries such as Rebass for styling and incorporating tools like Prettier and ESLint, gatsby-starter-modern ensures that both the aesthetics and functionality of a project are maintained at a high standard. This makes it an ideal choice for both new and seasoned developers who want to focus on building their applications without getting bogged down by styling inconsistencies or coding debates.
Features
- Strict Linting: Implements ESLint for JavaScript linting, enforcing the Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide for improved code quality.
- Auto-Formatting with Prettier: Automatically formats code to ensure consistency across the codebase, facilitating collaboration among multiple developers.
- Rebass for Styling: Utilizes Rebass, a React UI component library, for efficient and delightful styling of components, based on styled-components and styled-system.
- Development Scripts: Offers easy-to-use scripts for starting a development server, building the site, formatting code, and linting, making the setup process straightforward.
- Netlify Deployment: Simplifies the deployment process by enabling easy integration with Netlify for hosting.
- JavaScript and CSS Linting: Enforces coding standards with both ESLint for JavaScript and stylelint with stylelint-config-recommended for CSS, ensuring a clean codebase.
- Community Driven: As a starter project, it fosters contributions and updates, benefiting from collective enhancements from the developer community.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.