Overview:
The Gatsby + Decap CMS StarterNetlify Status is an example business website built with Gatsby and Decap CMS. It follows the JAMstack architecture and uses Git as a single source of truth and Netlify for continuous deployment and CDN distribution. The starter includes features such as a simple landing page with blog functionality, editable pages, blog post tagging, directory organization, styling with Bulma, fast loading times, and components for various elements. It also has Netlify deploy configuration, Netlify function support, and achieves a perfect score on Lighthouse for SEO, Accessibility, and Performance.
Features:
- Simple landing page with blog functionality: The starter includes a landing page that also functions as a blog, allowing users to create and publish blog posts using Decap CMS.
- Editable Pages: The template includes editable pages for landing, about, product, blog collection, and contact, with Netlify Form support.
- Blog Post Tagging: The starter provides a separate page for posts under each tag, allowing users to categorize and organize their blog posts.
- Basic directory organization: The template follows a structured directory organization to provide an organized codebase.
- Styling with Bulma: The starter leverages Bulma for styling, but the size is reduced using the gatsby-plugin-purgecss plugin, resulting in optimized performance.
- Fast loading times: Thanks to pre-rendered HTML and automatic chunk loading of JS files, the website achieves blazing fast loading times.
- gatsby-plugin-image with Decap CMS preview support: The template utilizes gatsby-plugin-image and offers Decap CMS preview support for enhanced image handling.
- Separate components for everything: The starter provides separate components for various elements, ensuring modularity and reusability.
- Netlify deploy configuration: The template includes Netlify deploy configuration, making it easy to deploy the website to Netlify.
- Netlify function support: The starter supports Netlify functions, allowing users to leverage serverless functions for server-side operations.
- Perfect score on Lighthouse for SEO, Accessibility, and Performance: The website built with this starter achieves a perfect score on Lighthouse for SEO, Accessibility, and Performance, ensuring high-quality standards.
- Gatsby
GatsbyJS is a free and open-source static site generator based on React. It uses a modern development stack including Webpack, GraphQL, and modern JavaScript and CSS frameworks. It also provides a rich set of plugins, starters, and themes.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Bulma
Bulma is a free, open source CSS framework based on Flexbox and built with Sass. It's 100% responsive, fully modular, and available for free.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- NetlifyCMS
Netlify CMS is a powerful and flexible content management system that is designed to work seamlessly with the Netlify platform. Netlify CMS provides a user-friendly interface for managing content, including support for custom content types, localization, and asset management.
- Netlify
Netlify is a cloud-based web development platform that provides a range of tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage modern web applications. It offers features such as continuous deployment, serverless functions, and CDN hosting, making it an ideal platform for building fast, scalable, and secure websites.