Gabo Brown Website

Note: This starter uses Gatsby v2.

This repo contains Gabo Brown portfolio website that is built with Gatsby, and Netlify CMS

Website link.

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

Features

• A simple landing page with a portfolio functionality built with Netlify CMS
• Editabe Pages: About, Product, Portfolio-Collection and Contact page with Netlify Form support
• Create Portfolio posts from Netlify CMS
• Tags: Separate page for posts under each tag
• 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
• Netlify function support, see src/lambda folder
• Perfect score on Lighthouse for SEO, Accessibility and Performance (wip:PWA)

Prerequisites

• Node 8.2.0+
• Gatsby CLI

Getting Started

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

Media Libraries (installed, but optional)

Media Libraries have been included in this starter as a default. If you are not planning to use Uploadcare or Cloudinary in your project, you can remove them from module import and registration in src/cms/cms.js. Here is an example of the lines to comment or remove them your project.

import CMS from 'netlify-cms-app'
// import uploadcare from 'netlify-cms-media-library-uploadcare'
// import cloudinary from 'netlify-cms-media-library-cloudinary'

import AboutPagePreview from './preview-templates/AboutPagePreview'
import BlogPostPreview from './preview-templates/BlogPostPreview'
import ProductPagePreview from './preview-templates/ProductPagePreview'
import IndexPagePreview from './preview-templates/IndexPagePreview'

// CMS.registerMediaLibrary(uploadcare);
// CMS.registerMediaLibrary(cloudinary);

CMS.registerPreviewTemplate('index', IndexPagePreview)
CMS.registerPreviewTemplate('about', AboutPagePreview)
CMS.registerPreviewTemplate('products', ProductPagePreview)
CMS.registerPreviewTemplate('blog', BlogPostPreview)

Getting Started (Without Netlify)

$ gatsby new [SITE_DIRECTORY_NAME] https://github.com/netlify-templates/gatsby-starter-netlify-cms/
$ cd [SITE_DIRECTORY_NAME]
$ npm run build
$ npm run serve

Setting up the CMS

Follow the Netlify CMS Quick Start Guide to set up authentication, and hosting.

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.