Gatsby Material Starter
A high performance blog starter with Material design in mind for GatsbyJS.
Overview:
The Gatsby Material Starter is a blog starter for GatsbyJS that is designed with a Material Design approach. It includes advanced features such as SEO, image optimization, PWA capabilities, and infinite scrolling feeds. This starter is meant to provide a minimal foundation for building advanced GatsbyJS powered websites by utilizing the latest technologies to streamline the development process. It supports both TypeScript and JavaScript, comes with Jest and Cypress configurations, and allows for writing Unit/Integration/E2E tests out of the box. The starter uses the gatsby-theme-advanced and is based on the Gatsby Advanced Starter.
Features:
- Gatsby v4 support
- First class TypeScript support
- Material UI V5 components
- Emotion used for styling
- Posts in MDX
- Code syntax highlighting
- Embed videos and iframes
- Infinite Scrolling
- React Query for client-side API calls
- Tags and categories for organizing posts
- Social features such as Twitter tweet button, Facebook share/share count, Reddit share/share count, and LinkedIn share button
- Author section
- Related posts computation and display based on category/tag match ranking
- Disqus support via gatsby-theme-advanced
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Material Design
Material Design is a design system developed by Google that provides a set of guidelines, components, and tools for creating visually appealing and functional user interfaces. Material Design is designed to be flexible and customizable, making it a great choice for a wide range of applications and use cases.
- 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.
- 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.
