Creating my Blog with Gatsby and Github Pages

Alright! Today is a great day, many years after I lost my old blog, I’ve decided to start from scratch and create again one blog to publish my experiences and don’t fall in the inertia. Here I will describe my experience creating my own blog using and . Gatsby Github Pages This article will be structured in What you will learn? Overview of Gatsby and GitHub PagesCreating your project with GatsbyPublishing your project in Github PagesAdding Travis CI to automate the deploy processNext steps 1. Overview of Gatsby and GitHub Pages First things first. Before to explain you, how to create your site I will tell you more about Gatsby and Github Pages, if you alreay know about them, go ahead to the next step. Taken from the official website is: Gatsby Gatsby is a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps. So we can use the power of , , and some data sources to create really fast web sites, re-using lots of and publishing in many Web hosting, in my case I will deploy in Github Pages. React GraphQL Markdown plugins In other words is a free option to deploy hosted repositories in Github, also it give us an easy way to automate this process with some platforms like . Github Pages Travis CI 2. Creating your project with Gatsby After I reviewd some tutorials and content in Internet, about how to create my own site with Gatsby, here are my steps. Follow the with Gatsby to install the gatsby-cli.Once you have installed the Gatsby CLI can create your Gatsby project based on some . To be honest, the simplest way to create your own site is using a template instead of creating everything from scratch. Also you can find and other technologies.In my case I’ve created my site based on the beautiful . Once of the benefits of using this template are: quick-start Gatsby templates some examples made with Gatsby narative theme Really good structure to add author and post Can be integrated with Contentful to create dynamic post instead of static post (commits in Github) Can be integrated with Mailchimp to reuse tue Subscriptions for newsletter The styles can be modifies based on the theme-ui The metadata and social networks can be modified in a simple way.Is open source. If you want to see more templates, you can visit . this link 3. Publishing your project in Github Pages I will no describe the step by step to publish your site in Github Pages, because in the is described really well. However I can provide you some learned lessons. official page I recommend to install the to avoid doing many manual things.Don’t forget to create the gh-pages branch in your repo.If you are trying to select your gh-pages branch, please follow the .Please review the . gh-pages dependency next link How Gatsby works with Github pages 4. Adding Travis CI to automate the deploy process In few words, is Travis CI Easily sync your projects with Travis CI and you’ll be testing your code in minutes! To be honest, this have changed my perspective and life when is needed to automate the deploy process based on commits in a branch. To deploy your site using Travis CI you need to create a .travis.yml file in your root folder project and add the next configuration. <button data-a11y="false" class="css-12o2r9t eu6xrih0" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0 px; padding: 8 px 12 px 7 px; font-size: inherit; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(111, 113 , 119 ); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; -webkit-appearance: none; border: none; outline: none; background: transparent; position: absolute; right: 22 px; top: 24 px; border-radius: 5 px; transition: background 0.3 s ease 0 s;">Copy <path d="M11.0475 0.905273 H1.67197C0.812542 0.905273 0.109375 1.60844 0.109375 2.46787 V13.406H1.67197V2.46787H11.0475V0.905273ZM13.3914 4.03046 H4.79716C3.93773 4.03046 3.23456 4.73363 3.23456 5.59306 V16.5312C3.23456 17.3906 3.93773 18.0938 4.79716 18.0938 H13.3914C14.2509 18.0938 14.954 17.3906 14.954 16.5312 V5.59306C14.954 4.73363 14.2509 4.03046 13.3914 4.03046 ZM13.3914 16.5312 H4.79716V5.59306H13.3914V16.5312Z" fill="#6f7177"> 1 language : node_js 2 cache : 3 directories : 4 - ~/.npm 5 notifications : 6 email : 7 recipients : 8 - [ THE EMAIL WHERE WILL BE SENT THE NOTIFICATIONS ] 9 on_success : always 10 on_failure : always 11 node_js : 12 - '12.13.1' 13 git : 14 depth : 3 15 script : 16 - npm run build 17 deploy : 18 provider : pages 19 skip_cleanup : true 20 keep_history : true 21 github_token : $GITHUB_TOKEN 22 local_dir : public 23 on : 24 branch : master You also can follow to get more details. this article You can achieve the same result using Circle CI 5. Next steps It’s hard to tell you all things you can do with Gatsby, however you can start reviwing: Review Gatsby Plugins Review Gatsby Resources Connect Gatsby with Contentful in five minutes Publish your site in other hosting like netlify Improve the GraphQL setup with Gatsby Add Gatsby Integrations Improve your SEO and Analytics tracking.