Gatsby + Netlify CMS Starter

Note: This application uses Gatsby v2.

This repo contains a react application for a website that is built with Gatsby, and Netlify CMS.

It follows the JAMstack architecture by using Git as a single source of truth, and Netlify for continuous deployment, and CDN distribution.

Features

• Forms with Netlify Form support
• Create Blog posts from Netlify CMS
• Basic directory organization
• Uses Bulma for styling, but size is reduced by purge-css-plugin
• Blazing fast loading times thanks to pre-rendered HTML and automatic chunk loading of JS files
• Uses gatbsy-image with Netlify-CMS preview support
• Separate components for everything
• Netlify deploy configuration

Prerequisites

• Node (I recommend using v8.2.0 or higher)
• Gatsby CLI

Access Locally

$ git clone https://github.com/[GITHUB_USERNAME]/[REPO_NAME].git
$ cd [REPO_NAME]
$ yarn
$ npm run start

To test the CMS locally, you'll need run a production build of the site:

$ npm run build
$ npm run serve

Debugging

Windows users might encounter node-gyp errors when trying to npm install. To resolve, make sure that you have both Python 2.7 and the Visual C++ build environment installed.

npm config set python python2.7
npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Full details here

Purgecss

This plugin uses gatsby-plugin-purgecss and bulma. The bulma builds are usually ~170K but reduced 90% by purgecss.