Purist – A clean Gatsby theme

A clean, full-featured theme with built-in search, dark mode, and social sharing – all for creating content with Gatsby.

Purist – A Gatsby theme

A clean, full-featured theme with built-in search, dark mode, and social sharing – all for creating content with Gatsby.

Features

Why you should use Purist:

Search

Search is built in using
FlexSearch.js to find content
quickly and easily.

Dark mode

A toggable light and dark theme are available out of the box using the
prefers-color-scheme media query to determine the default theme.

Social Sharing

You can select text within an article to easily copy or share directly with
Twitter and LinkedIn.

Getting Started

A guide on how to get started with Purist.

Installation

Using the gatsby-cli:

gatsby new my-site https://github.com/sebsojeda/gatsby-starter-purist

Using git:

git clone https://github.com/sebsojeda/gatsby-starter-purist my-site

cd my-site

yarn

Development & Build

Once the starter has been downloaded, you can begin development.

# Run localhost
yarn dev

# Production build
yarn build

# Clear all caches
yarn clean

Creating an article

To create an article, create a new folder in /content/articles/. You can name
it anything you'd like, but the folder name will determine the slug for the
page. Then you can add an index.mdx file for your content. Any media files for
your article can also go in this folder.

/content/articles/my-first-article/index.mdx

---
title: My first article
date: 2020-12-25
featuredImage: ./hero.jpg
draft: false
---

# Create your awesome MDX content here

Configuring site metadata

Add a site configuration to customize the theme to your liking.

/gatsby-config.js

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    name: 'Purist',
    defaultTitle: 'Purist: Creating content',
    titleTemplate: '%s • Purist: Creating content',
    description:
      'This is my description that will be used in the meta tags and important for search results',
    hero: {
      heading: 'Welcome to Purist.',
      subheading: 'A clean way to create content with Gatsby',
    },
    social: [
      {
        name: 'Twitter',
        url: 'https://twitter.com/sebsojeda',
      },
      {
        name: 'GitHub',
        url: 'https://github.com/sebsojeda',
      },
    ],
  },
  plugins: ['gatsby-theme-purist'],
};

Customization

Adding your logo

Your logo must be in SVG (vector) format in order to add it to the theme. This
is required because we will be making a React component containing your SVG
Logo.

Start by creating the component file at:

  gatsby-site
  └── src
    └── gatsby-theme-purity
      └── components
        └── Logo
          └── index.js

Once the file is created you can create your Logo component.

import React from 'react';

/**
 * Paste in your SVG logo and return it from this component.
 * Make sure you have a height set for your logo.
 * It is recommended to keep the height within 24-34px.
 * Make sure you set any 'fill' and 'stroke' attributes
 * to "currentColor" if you would like the hover effect.
 */
export default function Logo() {
  return (
    <svg viewBox="0 0 28 28" height="24px" fill="currentColor">
      <circle
        cx="14"
        cy="14"
        r="12"
        stroke="currentColor"
        stroke-width="2"
        fill="none"
      />
    </svg>
  );
}

Changing styles

Create a theme file and then you can override it with custom values.

/src/gatsby-theme-purity/theme/index.js

export default {
  fonts: {
    sans:
      'ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"',
    serif: 'ui-serif, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif',
    monospace:
      'ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", monospace',
  },
  modes: {
    light: {
      colors: {
        background: 'hsl(0deg, 0%, 100%)',
        text: 'hsl(222deg, 22%, 5%)',
        info: 'hsl(245deg, 100%, 60%)',
        infoBackground: 'hsl(210deg, 55%, 92%)',
        accent: 'hsl(245deg, 100%, 60%)',
        muted: '#73737d',
        hover: '#dbdbdb',
      },
      prism: {
        inlineCode: 'hsl(225deg, 12%, 40%)',
        background: 'hsl(225deg, 25%, 97%)',
        text: '#2a2a2a',
        highlight: 'hsl(225deg, 25%, 93%)',
        border: '#bf00b8',
        comment: '#467790',
        number: '#bf00b8',
        boolean: '#bf00b8',
        string: '#651fff',
        keyword: '#651fff',
        operator: '#651fff',
        property: '#da0079',
        tag: '#da0079',
        function: '#3d5afe',
        builtin: '#3d5afe',
        regex: '#3600d6',
        deleted: 'rgb(255, 85, 85)',
        attrName: '#aa00ff',
      },
    },
    dark: {
      colors: {
        background: 'hsl(210deg, 30%, 8%)',
        text: 'hsl(0deg, 0%, 100%)',
        info: 'hsl(230deg, 100%, 67%)',
        infoBackground: 'hsl(210deg, 38%, 15%)',
        accent: 'hsl(333deg, 100%, 52%)',
        muted: '#73737d',
        hover: '#1a1a1a',
      },
      prism: {
        inlineCode: 'hsl(210deg, 14%, 66%)',
        background: 'hsl(210deg, 30%, 12%)',
        text: '#fff',
        highlight: 'hsl(210deg, 30%, 18%)',
        border: '#ffd600',
        comment: '#6c8998',
        number: '#ffd600',
        boolean: '#ffd600',
        string: 'rgb(155, 109, 255)',
        keyword: 'rgb(155, 109, 255)',
        operator: 'rgb(155, 109, 255)',
        property: '#ff39a8',
        tag: '#ff39a8',
        function: 'rgb(0, 190, 255)',
        builtin: 'rgb(0, 190, 255)',
        regex: '#ffd700',
        deleted: '#ff5555',
        attrName: '#c653ff',
      },
    },
  },
};

Data Models

Article

Site Metadata

Supported Icons

The following icons are supported, along with a default option as well.

const icons = {
  behance: (props) => <Behance {...props} />,
  codePen: (props) => <Codepen {...props} />,
  devTo: (props) => <DevTo {...props} />,
  discord: (props) => <Discord {...props} />,
  dribble: (props) => <Dribbble {...props} />,
  facebook: (props) => <Facebook {...props} />,
  flickr: (props) => <Flickr {...props} />,
  github: (props) => <Github {...props} />,
  instagram: (props) => <Instagram {...props} />,
  linkedin: (props) => <Linkedin {...props} />,
  medium: (props) => <Medium {...props} />,
  patreon: (props) => <Patreon {...props} />,
  paypal: (props) => <Paypal {...props} />,
  reddit: (props) => <Reddit {...props} />,
  snapchat: (props) => <Snapchat {...props} />,
  stackOverflow: (props) => <StackOverflow {...props} />,
  tumblr: (props) => <Tumblr {...props} />,
  twitch: (props) => <Twitch {...props} />,
  twitter: (props) => <Twitter {...props} />,
  unsplash: (props) => <Unsplash {...props} />,
  youtube: (props) => <Youtube {...props} />,
  default: (props) => <Globe {...props} />,
};

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