A Frontend Masters workshop.

Clone this repo locally:

git clone [email protected]:jlengstorf/gatsby-intermediate.git

Make sure you’re on the start branch:

git checkout start

• Set up Yarn workspaces
• Create a site for theme dev
• Create the packages/gatsby-theme-docs folder
  • yarn init
  • Create index.js (// boop)
• Install the docs theme
  • yarn workspace negronis add "gatsby-theme-docs@*" (quotes for Windows)
  • Add default config to gatsby-config.js
• Make sure the content directory exists (onPreBootstrap)
  • yarn add mkdirp
  • Validate that this works by starting the theme-dev site in develop mode
• Define the docs data type (createSchemaCustomization)
  • Show this data type in GraphiQL
  • Run a query to show it returning an empty array
• Create docs nodes from MDX files (onCreateNode)
  • Only get the docs, not all MDX files
• Define a custom resolver to get the MDX body content (createResolvers)
  • Write a passthrough resolver (hat tip to @christopherbiscardi for the original work to figure out how these work)
• Create the required React components to display a docs page
  • Create a Layout component (src/components/layout.js)
  • Create a DocsPage component (src/components/docs-page.js)
    • Set up MDXRenderer
  • Create a DocsPageTemplate component (src/templates/docs-page-template.js)
    • Write the GraphQL query in GraphiQL first
    • Use the Code Exporter to get started
• Create pages from the docs nodes (createPages)
  • Write a GraphQL query in GraphiQL first
• Add Theme UI
  • yarn workspace gatsby-theme-docs add theme-ui gatsby-plugin-theme-ui @emotion/core @mdx-js/react
  • Update gatsby-config.js
  • Add a theme file (src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui/index.js)
  • Update Layout to use Theme UI
  • Update DocsPage to use Theme UI
• Create a TableOfContents component (src/components/table-of-contents.js)
  • Write a useDocs hook (src/hooks/use-docs.js)
• Add support for syntax highlighted code
  • yarn workspace gatsby-theme-docs add mdx-utils prism-react-renderer
  • Create a Code component (src/components/code.js)
  • Shadow the MDX components in Theme UI to use Code (src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui/components.js)
  • Insert a fenced code block (use src/components/docs-page.js) into docs/index.mdx
• Add support for live editing code blocks
  • yarn workspace gatsby-theme-docs add react-live
  • Add a scope file for easy shadowing
  • Update Code to use react-live

• Install the docs theme
  • yarn workspace negronis add "gatsby-theme-docs@*" (quotes for Windows)
  • Update gatsby-config.js with custom basePath and disable theme MDX
  • The existing theme from the Honkify site will automatically override the docs Theme UI config
  • Shadow the Layout component
• Create a Button component (src/components/button.js)
  • Shadow the scope.js file to add Button
  • Add the Button component in a live-editable code block in the docs
  • Show it interacting with Honkify

• Add Theme UI
  • yarn workspace negronis add theme-ui gatsby-plugin-theme-ui @emotion/core @mdx-js/react
  • Add a preset (yarn workspace negronis add @theme-ui/presets)
  • Create a theme file (src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui/index.js)
• Create a Layout component (src/components/layout.js)
  • Update src/pages/index.js to use the Layout
  • Update src/pages/history.js to use the Layout
  • Add styles for a hollow button
• Add image support
  • yarn workspace negronis add gatsby-source-filesystem gatsby-transformer-cloudinary gatsby-image
  • Get credentials from Cloudinary
  • Add env vars to .env.development
  • Load env vars in gatsby-config.js
  • Add plugin config to gatsby-config.js
  • Query for images
    • Show this in GraphiQL first
  • Update src/pages/index.js to display an image
    • Quick aside to show transformations with Cloudinary because they’re dope
  • Update src/pages/history.js to display an image
• Install the docs theme
  • Recipes are a kind of documentation! :)
  • yarn workspace negronis add "gatsby-theme-docs@*" (quotes for Windows)
  • Add modified config to gatsby-config.js
    • basePath: '/recipes'
    • contentPath: 'content/recipes'
• Update src/pages/index.js to link to /recipes
  • Add styles for a primary button
• Shadow the Layout component in the docs theme
• Shadow the TableOfContents component in the docs theme
• Install the events theme
  • yarn workspace negronis add @jlengstorf/gatsby-theme-events
  • This was built as part of this free course on authoring Gatsby themes: https://egghead.io/courses/gatsby-theme-authoring
  • Update gatsby-config.js with a custom basePath and contentPath
  • Shadow the Layout component in the events theme

• Add support for client-side GraphQL queries
  • yarn workspace lookup add gatsby-plugin-apollo @apollo/react-common @apollo/react-hooks graphql-tag
  • Update gatsby-config.js to use gatsby-plugin-apollo
  • Point Apollo at the Rick & Morty API (https://rickandmortyapi.com/graphql/)
• Create pages
  • src/pages/index.js
  • src/pages/search.js
• Add support for client-only routes
  • gatsby-node.js (onCreatePage/matchPath)
  • Add a redirect netlify.toml
  • Test using netlify dev
• Create a search form
  • React hooks
  • Programmatic navigation
  • Add a submit handler
• Create a results component
  • Query based on the current search string
• Figure out the search string from state or URL
  • location