Will Kencel's website built with Gatsby

A starter to launch your blazing fast personal website and a blog, Built with Gatsby and hosted on AWS (s3/cloudfront/route 53). Feel free to use as a model for your own.

Need help launching your website? Feel free to reach me at wkencel1@gmail.com

👌 Features

• A Blog and Personal website with Gatsby CMS.
• Responsive Web Design
• Dark / Light Mode
• Customize content of Homepage, Blog, About and Contact page.
• Add / Modify / Delete blog posts.
• Edit website settings, Add Google Analytics and make it your own all with in the CMS.
• SEO Optimized
• Social media icons
• OpenGraph structured data
• Twitter Cards meta
• Beautiful XML Sitemaps

🚀 Quick Deploy

1. run yarn install
2. run gatsby build to create the production build
3. run npm run start which will in turn run the gatsby development command
4. see and edit your site using localhost:8000
5. when you're ready, copy the public folder to an s3 bucket and host your site with cloudfront cdn, s3 and route 53 (if you need a domain name)

Further Instructions

• Editing content and Adding posts
• Customing Site details
• Install Locally
• Folder Structure
• Learning Gatsby
• Thank you from Stackrole

🖥 Install Locally

Use the Gatsby CLI to create a new site, specifying the gatsby-starter-foundation starter.

gatsby new gatsby-starter-foundation https://github.com/stackrole/gatsby-starter-foundation

You need Node and Gatsby-CLI installed, check out Gatsby Setup Instructions

Start developing

Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.

cd WillKencelGatsbySite/
gatsby develop

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 gatsby-starter-foundation directory in your code editor of choice and edit. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!

📁 Folder Structure

A quick look at the top-level files and directories you'll see in a Gatsby project.

.
├── node_modules
├── src
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc
├── gatsby-browser.js
├── gatsby-config.js
├── gatsby-node.js
├── LICENSE
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
└── README.md

1. /node_modules: This directory contains all of the modules of code that your project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed.

2. /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”.

3. .gitignore: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for.

4. .prettierrc: This is a configuration file for Prettier. Prettier is a tool to help keep the formatting of your code consistent.

5. gatsby-browser.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby browser APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting the browser.

6. 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).

7. 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.

8. LICENSE: Gatsby is licensed under the MIT license.

9. package-lock.json (See package.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).

10. 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.

11. README.md: A text file containing useful reference information about your project.

🎓 Learning Gatsby

Looking for more guidance? Full documentation for Gatsby lives on the website. Here are some places to start:

• For most developers, we recommend starting with our in-depth tutorial for creating a site with Gatsby. It starts with zero assumptions about your level of ability and walks through every step of the process.

• To dive straight into code samples, head to our documentation. In particular, check out the Guides, API Reference, and Advanced Tutorials sections in the sidebar.

🙏 Thank you

We really appreciate you taking time to build your website with our gatsby-starter-foundation.

I would love to get your feedback and contributions.

Feel free to email me at wkencel1@gmail.com for help regarding this template or the code