creative personal & portfolio template based on gatsby. designed so you can showcase your work and write your blogs.

1. Clone site.

   Use the Gatsby CLI to create a new site, specifying the default starter.

   # create a new Gatsby site using the default starter
   git clone https://github.com/AbdaliDahir/gatsby-portfolio.git

2. Start developing.

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

   cd gatsby-portfolio/
   npm install

   Set up environment.

   cp .env.example .env.development
   vi .env.development

   Open the file .env.development and paste your personal GitHub access token in it. At least with repository and user read access. The file should then look like the following

   # .env.development
   GATSBY_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=b621..................
   GATSBY_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS=
   

   Start development server

   gatsby develop

3. Open the source code and start editing!

   Your site is now running at https://localhost:8000!

   Note: You'll also see a second link: https://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.

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

.
├── node_modules
├── src
├── static
├── .gitignore
├── .prettierrc
├── gatsby-browser.js
├── gatsby-config.js
├── gatsby-node.js
├── gatsby-ssr.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. gatsby-ssr.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby server-side rendering APIs (if any). These allow customization of default Gatsby settings affecting server-side rendering.

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

10. 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).

11. 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.

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

• Gatsby v2
• Uses styled-components + styled-system for styling
• SEO
• Responsive design
• Icons from featherIcons
• Netlify Deployment Friendly
• fetching data from the official GitHub gatsby-source-github-api
• Google Analytics integration
• Easy site customization

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.