Note: This starter uses Gatsby v4.
This repo contains an example business website that is built with Gatsby, and Netlify CMS: Demo Link.
It follows the JAMstack architecture by using Git as a single source of truth, and Netlify for continuous deployment, and CDN distribution.
- A simple landing page with blog functionality built with Netlify CMS
- Editable Pages: Landing, About, Product, Blog-Collection and Contact page with Netlify Form support
- Create Blog posts from Netlify CMS
- Tags: Separate page for posts under each tag
- Basic directory organization
- Uses Bulma for styling, but size is reduced by
gatsy-plugin-purgecss
- Blazing fast loading times thanks to pre-rendered HTML and automatic chunk loading of JS files
- Uses
gatsby-plugin-image
with Netlify-CMS preview support - Separate components for everything
- Netlify deploy configuration
- Netlify function support, see
netlify/functions
folder - Perfect score on Lighthouse for SEO, Accessibility and Performance (wip:PWA)
- ..and more
- Minimal Node.js version 14.15.0
- Gatsby CLI
- Netlify CLI
Netlify CMS:
After clicking that button, you’ll authenticate with GitHub and choose a repository name. Netlify will then automatically create a repository in your GitHub account with a copy of the files from the template. Next, it will build and deploy the new site on Netlify, bringing you to the site dashboard when the build is complete. Next, you’ll need to set up Netlify’s Identity service to authorize users to log in to the CMS.
Pulldown a local copy of the Github repository Netlify created for you, with the name you specified in the previous step
$ git clone https://github.com/[GITHUB_USERNAME]/[REPO_NAME].git
$ cd [REPO_NAME]
$ yarn
$ netlify dev # or ntl dev
This uses Netlify Dev CLI feature to serve any functions you have in the netlify/functions
folder.
To test the CMS locally, you'll need to run a production build of the site:
$ npm run build
$ netlify dev # or ntl dev
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);
Note: Don't forget to also remove them from package.json
and yarn.lock
/ package-lock.json
using yarn
or npm
. During the build netlify-cms-app will bundle the media libraries as well, having them removed will save you build time.
Example:
yarn remove netlify-cms-media-library-uploadcare
OR
yarn remove netlify-cms-media-library-cloudinary
$ gatsby new [SITE_DIRECTORY_NAME] https://github.com/netlify-templates/gatsby-starter-netlify-cms/
$ cd [SITE_DIRECTORY_NAME]
$ npm run build
$ npm run start
Follow the Netlify CMS Quick Start Guide to set up authentication, and hosting for production.
If you want use Netlify CMS locally, run the site in one terminal with npm run start
and in another
Terminal you can use npx netlify-cms-proxy-server
which proxy requests so you'll be automatically logged
in as a user on http:localhost:3000/admin.
Windows users, who aren't using WSL, 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
MacOS and WSL users who might also encounter some errors, check node-gyp for more info. We recommend using the latest stable node version.
This plugin uses gatsby-plugin-purgecss and bulma. The bulma builds are usually ~170K but reduced 90% by purgecss.
Contributions are always welcome, no matter how large or small. Before contributing, please read the code of conduct.