This website was built with the hello world starter from Gatsby. If you'll like to use this project as a template for your own website, don't forget to give me a shout out.
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Create a Gatsby site. Fork and clone Repo
git clone https://github.com/Linda-Ikechukwu/Personal-Site.git
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Start developing.
Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.
cd your-folder-name/ gatsby develop
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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.Open the project directory in your code editor of choice and edit
src/pages/index.js
. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!
A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll see in this Gatsby project.
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├── node_modules
├── src
├── static
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc
├── gatsby-config.js
├── gatsby-node.js
├── LICENSE
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── README.md
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/node_modules
: This directory contains all of the modules of code that your project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed. -
/src
: This directory will contain all of the code related to what you will see on the front-end of your site (what you see in the browser) such as your site header or a page template.src
is a convention for “source code”. Inside this folder, you will findcomponents
,pages
,templates
andblog
folders. -
/static
: This directory will contain all of the static files such as fonts, icons and images for your site -
.gitignore
: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for. -
.prettierrc
: This is a configuration file for Prettier. Prettier is a tool to help keep the formatting of your code consistent. -
gatsby-config.js
: This is the main configuration file for a Gatsby site. This is where you can specify information about your site (metadata) like the site title and description, which Gatsby plugins you’d like to include, etc. (Check out the config docs for more detail). -
gatsby-node.js
: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby Node APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting pieces of the site build process. -
LICENSE
: Gatsby is licensed under the MIT license. -
package-lock.json
(Seepackage.json
below, first). This is an automatically generated file based on the exact versions of your npm dependencies that were installed for your project. (You won’t change this file directly). -
package.json
: A manifest file for Node.js projects, which includes things like metadata (the project’s name, author, etc). This manifest is how npm knows which packages to install for your project. -
README.md
: A text file containing useful reference information about the project.
Looking for more guidance? Full documentation for Gatsby lives on the website. Here are some places to start: