Gatsby Starter Personal Blog

Overview:

PersonalBlog is a GatsbyJS starter that allows users to create and customize their own personal blog with ease. It provides a range of features including customizable layout transitions, easy editing of content in Markdown files, restyling capabilities, comments (Facebook), post categories, full text searching (Algolia), contact form (Netlify form handling), Material UI integration, RSS feed, social sharing (Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn), PWA support, Google Analytics integration, and more.

Features:

• Customizable layout transitions
• Easy editing of content in Markdown files
• Restyling capabilities through theme object
• Comments functionality using Facebook
• Post categories for organizing content
• Full text searching using Algolia
• Contact form with Netlify form handling
• Material UI integration
• RSS feed for easy content syndication
• Social sharing options for major platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn)
• PWA support with manifest.json, offline support, and favicons
• Google Analytics integration for tracking website traffic
• Favicons generator using a node script
• Components lazy loading with AsyncComponent for improved performance
• ESLint configuration using Google’s config
• Prettier code styling
• Custom webpack CommonsChunkPlugin settings
• Webpack BundleAnalyzerPlugin for analyzing bundle size

Installation:

Before installing the PersonalBlog GatsbyJS starter, make sure you have Gatsby Cli installed. If not, install it first by following the instructions on the GatsbyJS website.

Once you have Gatsby Cli installed, follow these steps to get started with the PersonalBlog starter:

1. Open your terminal or command prompt.
2. Use the Gatsby new command to install the starter:

gatsby new my-personal-blog https://github.com/greglobinski/gatsby-starter-personal-blog

3. Navigate into the newly created directory:

cd my-personal-blog

4. To hot-serve your website on http://localhost:8000 while developing, run:

gatsby develop

5. To create a static site ready to host in the /public directory, run:

gatsby build

Note: The starter uses external services for some functions, such as comments, searching, and analytics. To use these services, you need to secure access data for each service. Instructions on how to do this can be found in the “Instructions & tutorials” section of the PersonalBlog documentation.

Summary:

PersonalBlog is a GatsbyJS starter that provides a comprehensive set of features for creating and customizing a personal blog. It offers easy content editing in Markdown files, customizable layout transitions, social sharing options, comments functionality, full text searching, and more. The installation process is straightforward, requiring the installation of Gatsby Cli and running a few commands. With PersonalBlog, users can quickly set up their own personal blog with a modern and customizable design.