Gatsby Starter Hero Blog

Overview:

HeroBlog is a GatsbyJS blog starter that provides a ready-to-use and easy-to-customize theme with a “Hero” section on the home page. It was initially built for Gatsby v1 but has been upgraded to Gatsby v2. The starter includes features such as easy editable content in Markdown files, CSS styling with styled-jsx and PostCSS, SEO optimization, social sharing functionality, comments using Facebook, image lazy loading and webp support, post categories, full-text searching using Algolia, contact form using Netlify form handling, and more.

Features:

• Easy editable content in Markdown files
• CSS styling with styled-jsx and PostCSS
• SEO optimization with sitemap generation, robot.txt, meta tags, and OpenGraph Tags
• Social sharing functionality for Twitter, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn
• Comments feature using Facebook
• Images lazy loading and support for webp format using gatsby-image
• Post categories for organizing posts
• Full-text searching using Algolia
• Contact form with Netlify form handling
• Form elements and validation with ant-design
• RSS feed generation
• 100% PWA (Progressive Web App) support with manifest.webmanifest, offline support, and favicons
• Google Analytics integration
• App favicons generator using a node script
• Easy customization of base styles via a theme object generated from a YAML file
• React v16.3 support using gatsby-plugin-react-next
• Components lazy loading for social sharing functionality
• ESLint code styling with Google config
• Prettier code styling
• Webpack BundleAnalyzerPlugin for bundle analysis
• Optional Gravatar image instead of local Avatar/Logo image

Installation:

To install the HeroBlog starter, follow these steps:

1. Ensure that you have Gatsby CLI installed. If not, install it first.
2. Use the Gatsby CLI gatsby new command to install the starter.
3. Navigate into the newly created directory.
4. To hot-serve your website on http://localhost:8000, run the command gatsby develop.
5. To create a static site ready to host in the /public directory, run the command gatsby build.

Please note that the starter uses external services for some functions such as comments, searching, and analytics. You will need to secure access data for these services and create an .env file in the root folder with the necessary data.

Summary:

HeroBlog is a GatsbyJS blog starter that provides an easy-to-use and customizable theme for creating a blog. With features like Markdown content editing, CSS styling, SEO optimization, social sharing, comments, image lazy loading, post categories, full-text searching, and more, HeroBlog offers a comprehensive solution for setting up a blog with GatsbyJS. The installation process is straightforward, and the starter also includes instructions for integrating with external services.