Gatsby Advanced Starter

A starter skeleton with advanced features for Gatsby.

NOTE: This branch contains Gatsby v2 compatible version of the starter. To get the Gatsby v1 compatible version, use the v1 branch.

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Check out the Features to read about all Progressive Web App capabilities of this starter in detail.

Why?

This project aims to provide a minimal base for building advanced GatsbyJS powered websites.

It doesn't define any UI limitations in any way and only gives you the basic components for SEO/Social Media/etc while creating a comfortable development environment to get started.

You are free to use any UI framework/styling options.

How can I use this?

If you are a newcomer to Gatsby who's interested in the implementations of most needed features, this is a great place to start.

If you are interested in a foundation for building ultra-fast websites, you can use this project as a "minimal" starter.

Demo website.

Features

• Gatsby v2 support
• Blazing fast loading times thanks to pre-rendered HTML and automatic chunk loading of JS files
• Posts in Markdown
  • Code syntax highlighting
  • Embed YouTube videos
  • Embed Tweets
• Pagination
  • Configurable via SiteConfig.js
• Tags
  • Separate page for posts under each tag
• Categories
  • Separate page for posts under each category
• Disqus support
  • Notifications about new disqus comments
• /static/ and content folders are available to use with gatsby-image out of the box for optimized image generation
• High configurability
• Separate components for everything:
  • User social profiles
  • Copyright information
  • More!
• NetlifyCMS support out of the box
• PWA features
  • Offline support
  • Web App Manifest support
  • Loading progress for slow networks
• SEO
  • Google Analytics support
  • Sitemap generation
  • robots.txt
  • General description tags
  • Schema.org JSONLD (Google Rich Snippets)
  • OpenGraph Tags (Facebook/Google+/Pinterest)
  • Twitter Tags (Twitter Cards)
• RSS feeds
• Social features
  • Twitter tweet button
  • Facebook share/share count
  • Reddit share/share count
  • LinkedIn share button
  • Telegram share button
• Development tools
  • ESLint for linting
  • Prettier for code formatting
  • Remark-Lint for linting Markdown
  • write-good for linting English prose
  • gh-pages for deploying to GitHub pages
  • Netlify deploy configuration
  • CodeClimate configuration file and badge

NOTE: Feel free to check out Gatsby Material Starter if you are interested in a more opinionated starter with Material Design in mind.

Getting Started

Install this starter (assuming Gatsby is installed and updated) by running from your CLI:

gatsby new YourProjectName https://github.com/Vagr9K/gatsby-advanced-starter
npm run develop # or gatsby develop

Or you can fork the project, make your changes there and merge new features when needed.

Alternatively:

git clone https://github.com/Vagr9K/gatsby-advanced-starter YourProjectName # Clone the project
cd YourProjectname
rm -rf .git # So you can have your own changes stored in VCS.
npm install # or yarn install
npm run develop # or gatsby develop

Configuration

Edit the export object in data/SiteConfig:

module.exports = {
  siteTitle: "Gatsby Advanced Starter", // Site title.
  siteTitleShort: "GA Starter", // Short site title for homescreen (PWA). Preferably should be under 12 characters to prevent truncation.
  siteTitleAlt: "GatsbyJS Advanced Starter", // Alternative site title for SEO.
  siteLogo: "/logos/logo-1024.png", // Logo used for SEO and manifest.
  siteUrl: "https://gatsby-advanced-starter-demo.netlify.com", // Domain of your website without pathPrefix.
  pathPrefix: "/", // Prefixes all links. For cases when deployed to example.github.io/gatsby-advanced-starter/.
  siteDescription: "A GatsbyJS starter with Advanced design in mind.", // Website description used for RSS feeds/meta description tag.
  siteRss: "/rss.xml", // Path to the RSS file.
  siteRssTitle: "Gatsby Advanced Starter RSS feed", // Title of the RSS feed
  siteFBAppID: "1825356251115265", // FB Application ID for using app insights
  googleAnalyticsID: "UA-47311644-5", // GA tracking ID.
  disqusShortname: "https-vagr9k-github-io-gatsby-advanced-starter", // Disqus shortname.
  dateFromFormat: "YYYY-MM-DD", // Date format used in the frontmatter.
  dateFormat: "DD/MM/YYYY", // Date format for display.
  postsPerPage: 4, // Amount of posts displayed per listing page. Set to zero to disable paging. See the "Pagination" section.
  userName: "Advanced User", // Username to display in the author segment.
  userEmail: "[email protected]", // Email used for RSS feed's author segment
  userTwitter: "", // Optionally renders "Follow Me" in the UserInfo segment.
  userLocation: "North Pole, Earth", // User location to display in the author segment.
  userAvatar: "https://api.adorable.io/avatars/150/test.png", // User avatar to display in the author segment.
  userDescription:
    "Yeah, I like animals better than people sometimes... Especially dogs. Dogs are the best. Every time you come home, they act like they haven't seen you in a year. And the good thing about dogs... is they got different dogs for different people.", // User description to display in the author segment.
  // Links to social profiles/projects you want to display in the author segment/navigation bar.
  userLinks: [
    {
      label: "GitHub",
      url: "https://github.com/Vagr9K/gatsby-advanced-starter",
      iconClassName: "fa fa-github"
    },
    {
      label: "Twitter",
      url: "https://twitter.com/Vagr9K",
      iconClassName: "fa fa-twitter"
    },
    {
      label: "Email",
      url: "mailto:[email protected]",
      iconClassName: "fa fa-envelope"
    }
  ],
  copyright: "Copyright © 2019. Advanced User", // Copyright string for the footer of the website and RSS feed.
  themeColor: "#c62828", // Used for setting manifest and progress theme colors.
  backgroundColor: "#e0e0e0" // Used for setting manifest background color.
};

If want to customize Netlify CMS, e.g. registering custom widgets or styling the preview pane, you can do so by editing src/netlifycms/index.js:

import CMS from "netlify-cms-app";

CMS.init({
  config: {
    backend: {
      name: "git-gateway"
    }
  }
});

You can also optionally set pathPrefix:

module.exports = {
  // Note: it must *not* have a trailing slash.
  pathPrefix: "/gatsby-advanced-starter" // Prefixes all links. For cases when deployed to example.github.io/gatsby-advanced-starter/.
};

WARNING: Make sure to edit static/robots.txt to include your domain for the sitemap!

Pagination

By default the starter will show 4 posts per page. The landing page is the first page located on / (controlled by the Listing component).

You can control the amount of posts via SiteConfig by setting the postsPerPage: ${NUMBER}.

NOTE: You can also disable the pagination by setting the postsPerPage: 0. In this case the landing page will be controlled by the Landing component.

NetlifyCMS

First of all, make sure to edit static/admin/config.yml and add your GitHub/GitLab/NetlifyId credentials:

backend:
  name: github # Refer to https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/authentication-backends/ for auth backend list and instructions
  branch: master # Branch to update
  repo: vagr9k/gatsby-material-starter # Repo for pushing new commits. Make sure to replace with your repo!

You can visit /admin/ after and will be greeted by a login dialog (depending on the auth provider you ave chosen above).

For NetlifyCMS specific issues visit the official documentation.

Author

Ruben Harutyunyan (@Vagr9K)