A minimalist Gatsby starter for your blog. Demo.
Inspired by Heiswayi Nrird's the-plain.
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Create a Gatsby site.
Use the Gatsby CLI to create a new site, specifying the default starter.
# create a new Gatsby site using the-plain-gatsby starter gatsby new my-blog https://github.com/wangonya/the-plain-gatsby
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Start developing.
Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.
cd my-blog/ 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
my-blog
directory in your code editor of choice and editsrc/pages/about.md
. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!Edit
gatsby.config.js
to update site metadata.Add blog posts in markdown in
src/pages/blog/
. Each blog should have atitle
anddate
frontmatter. Example blog posts have been provided.