Gatsby accelerates my portfolio development and can yours too
React-based Gatsby is a quick and efficient way to get any site up these days. So, when I started looking at the problem as a way to learn more about React as well as how to publish to a static environment combined with the ease of use via the well written documentation—it was a clear winner over traditional setups.
For my hosting environment I chose Github Pages which traditionally uses Jekyll as the static development platform; but, without much effort you too can host a Gatsby site using Github Pages. For starters I jumped right into the Gatsby docs: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/how-gatsby-works-with-github-pages/
A couple of methods exist to publish to Github: one being the Master Branch and the other being a path on your subdomain. I just need the ability to publish to my subdomain /root. Not only that; but, I’m using a custom domain and their instructions specifically say: “If you use a custom domain, don’t add a pathPrefix"
Then it was as simple as
gatsby new gatsby-site https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-hello-world
I chose the Novela theme by the fine folks over at Narative
https://github.com/narative/gatsby-theme-novela which does require a little bit of a different setup because it’s not using the gh-pages package out of the box. Thankfully they too have a clean repo to view a sample site at.
More to come as I write and add additional plugins.
Additional resources and readings that continue to teach me:
