Gatsby Material Starter

A blog starter with Material Design in mind for Gatsby.

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GatsbyJS V2

This starter is based on GatsbyJS V2, which brings progressive web app features such as automatic code and data splitting (by route), prefetching, with service worker/offline-first support and PRPL pattern.

More information in the announcement.

NOTE: You can access the v1 version of the starter via the v1 branch.

Features

  • Blazing fast loading times thanks to pre-rendered HTML and automatic chunk loading of JS files
  • React-MD for Material design
    • Integrated FontAwesome support
    • Integrated Material Icons support
  • SASS/SCSS styling
  • NetlifyCMS support for creating/editing posts via admin panel
  • Separate components for everything
  • High configurability:
    • User information
    • User social profiles
    • Copyright information
    • More!
  • Author segment
    • Name
    • Location
    • Description
    • Links
    • Follow Me button
  • Posts in Markdown
    • Code syntax highlighting
    • Embedded YouTube videos
    • Embedded Tweets
  • Tags
    • Separate page for posts under each tag
  • Categories
    • Separate page for posts under each category
  • Suggested posts segment
  • Disqus support
    • Notifications about new disqus comments
  • Responsive design
    • On mobile, Disqus is loaded only after expanding comments for better performance
  • Social features
    • Twitter tweet button
    • Facebook share/share count
    • Reddit share/share count
    • Google+ share button
    • LinkedIn share button
    • Telegram share button
  • SEO
    • Sitemap generation
    • robots.txt
    • General description tags
    • Schema.org JSONLD (Google Rich Snippets)
    • OpenGraph Tags (Facebook/Google+/Pinterest)
    • Twitter Tags (Twitter Cards)
  • RSS feeds
  • Loading progress for slow networks
  • Offline support
  • Web App Manifest support
  • Automatic image transformation and size optimization
  • Netlify deploy configuration
  • Google Analytics support
  • Development tools
    • ESLint for linting
    • Prettier for code style
    • Remark-Lint for linting Markdown
    • write-good for linting English prose
    • gh-pages for deploying to GitHub pages
    • CodeClimate configuration file and badge

NOTE: Take a look at gatsby-advanced-starter if you prefer building UI from scratch and/or only interested in fundamental features.

You can also visit my personal blog if you want to see a fully implemented blog based on this starter.

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screenshot-mobile

Showcase of NetlifyCMS:

netlifyadmin-main

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Getting Started

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

gatsby new YourProjectName https://github.com/Vagr9K/gatsby-material-starter
npm install # or yarn install
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-material-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 Material Starter", // Site title.
  siteTitleShort: "GM Starter", // Short site title for homescreen (PWA). Preferably should be under 12 characters to prevent truncation.
  siteTitleAlt: "GatsbyJS Material Starter", // Alternative site title for SEO.
  siteLogo: "/logos/logo-1024.png", // Logo used for SEO and manifest.
  siteUrl: "https://vagr9k.github.io", // Domain of your website without pathPrefix.
  pathPrefix: "/gatsby-material-starter", // Prefixes all links. For cases when deployed to example.github.io/gatsby-material-starter/.
  fixedFooter: false, // Whether the footer component is fixed, i.e. always visible
  siteDescription: "A GatsbyJS stater with Material design in mind.", // Website description used for RSS feeds/meta description tag.
  siteRss: "/rss.xml", // Path to the RSS file.
  siteFBAppID: "1825356251115265", // FB Application ID for using app insights
  siteGATrackingID: "UA-47311644-4", // Tracking code ID for google analytics.
  disqusShortname: "https-vagr9k-github-io-gatsby-material-starter", // Disqus shortname.
  postDefaultCategoryID: "Tech", // Default category for posts.
  dateFromFormat: "YYYY-MM-DD", // Date format used in the frontmatter.
  dateFormat: "DD/MM/YYYY", // Date format for display.
  userName: "Material User", // Username to display in the 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-material-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. Material User" // Copyright string for the footer of the website and RSS feed.
};

You can also optionally set pathPrefix:

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

NOTE: user*, disqusShortname and copyright are optional and won't render if omitted.

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

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.

Theming

Edit src/layout/theme.scss to suit your needs.
You can use Material color palette provided by React-MD.

@import "~react-md/src/scss/react-md";
$md-primary-color: $md-grey-400;
$md-secondary-color: $md-red-800;
$md-tertiary-color: $md-grey-300;

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