Ck Gatsby blog starter

A beautiful and featureful gatsby blog starter for bloggers!

 

 

Table of contents

• Features
• Quick Start
• Set-up contentful CMS
• Deploy with Netlify
• Contributing
• Folder Structure
• License

Features

• Beautiful layout
• Dark Mode
• Beautiful typography
• Code highlighting
• Filter by topics ( upcoming )
• Search articles ( upcoming )
• Pagination support ( upcoming )
• Mobile-Support
• Contentful CMS support

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Quick Start

Create a Gatsby site

Use the Gatsby CLI to create a new site, specifying the Ck gatsby starter.

# Create a new Gatsby blog site using the Ck blog gatsby starter
gatsby new <project-name> https://github.com/Ckbhatia/Ck-gatsby-blog

Start Developing

Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.

cd blog
gatsby develop

Open the source code and start editing!

Your site is now running at http://localhost:8000!

Note: You'll also see a second link: http://localhost:8000/___graphql. This is a tool you can use to experiment with querying your data. Learn more about using this tool in the Gatsby tutorial.

Access Locally

$ git clone https://github.com/[GITHUB_USERNAME]/[REPO_NAME].git
$ cd [REPO_NAME]
$ yarn
$ npm run develop

Set-up contentful CMS

It's optional to set-up contentful CMS.

You can use any other CMS or create MDX files in this app.

Note: You need to modify config for other CMS or MDX else set-up contentful CMS to use this project.

• Create an account on contentful.com
• Navigate to the content model; click on add content type.
• Name it anything, for ex: blog.
• Click on Add field, create fields one by one.

There are seven types of fields required.

Name	Field ID	Appearance	Other
Title	title	Short Text	Entry File
Slug	slug	Short
Thumbnail	thumbnail	Media
Topic	topic	Short Text
Author	author	Short Text
Published	published	Date & Time
Body	body	Rich Text

Note: Field ID is case sensitive.

You can also use this pre-built content model

Config contentful

• Go to settings of contentful.com and click on API Key.
• Click on "Example Key 1", you can rename this.
• Copy Space ID and Content Delivery API - access token.
• Now, Navigate to your local copy of this repo.
• Create .env.development and .env.production file.
• Put these variables inside and save the file.

CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID=<Paste here your space Id>
CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN=<Paste here your delivery API - access token>

For Demo app:

CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID=zorf8a5obm1d
CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN=v4WRlGF6fTfBUrP54Hbaiava6VjPgKbW8mFEOgzEiPY

Note: contributors can use these credentials and skip to set-up their own contentful CMS.

Publishing article with contentful

• Navigate to content on contentful.com
• Click on Add Blog Post button to create a post.
• Write your article and fill all the required fields.
• Publish your blog and deploy or re-deploy your own copy of this repo.

Deploy with Netlify

Click the button below to build and deploy your own copy of the repository:

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please have a look at the contribution guidelines first. 🎉

Folder Structure

└── Public
└── static
    └── favicon
└── src
    ├── assets
    │   ├── _base
    │   ├── _general
    │   ├── _reset
    │   ├── _vars
    │   └── main
    ├── components
    │   ├── Article_page
    |   |   ├── MainBlog
    |   |   ├── Post
    |   |   ├── Share
    |   |   └── Sidebar
    |   ├── Main_page
    |   |   ├── Article
    |   |   ├── LatestPost
    |   |   ├── MainPage
    |   |   └── Sidebar
    │   ├── Footer
    │   ├── Head
    │   ├── Header
    │   ├── Layout
    │   ├── Loader
    │   ├── Mode
    │   └── Subscribe
    ├── Pages
    │   ├── 404
    │   └── Index
    ├── Posts
    ├── templates
    │   └── blog
    └── Context

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2020 Chetan Kumar