This portfolio is a clone of the Gatsby Starter Portfolio: Level 2, details linked below.
Removed the blog functionality since it was irrelevant to what I was doing. Also included the 'React TS Particles' module which is powering the AI-looking web in the hero section.
Now on to the boilerplate...
A minimalistic, responsive and easily configurable Gatsby starter that will help to bring your portfolio to the next level.
That's why we like to call our starter Level 2 or short LvL2. The starter comes with several prepared info sections for your portfolio that can be easily configured with the main Gatsby configuration files. For content creation we are using Markdown files with Frontmatter attributes that can be easily edited or created.
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Create a Gatsby site.
Use the Gatsby CLI to create a new site, specifying the level-2 starter.
# create a new Gatsby site using the level-2 starter gatsby new my-portfolio https://github.com/Knochenmark/gatsby-starter-level-2 -
Start developing.
Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.
cd my-portfolio/ gatsby develop -
Open the source code and start editing!
Your site is now running at
http://localhost:8000!Note: You'll also see a second link:
http://localhost:8000/___graphql. This is a tool you can use to experiment with querying your data. Learn more about using this tool in the Gatsby tutorial.Open the
my-portfoliodirectory in your code editor of choice and editsrc/pages/index.js. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!
- Responsive Layout
- High configurability
- Configurable Sections via Markdown
- Hero
- About
- Featured Projects
- Contact
- Social Links
- Styled Components with Emotion
- Organized Projects by techs and Blog Posts by tags
- Posts in Markdown
- Syntax highlighting in code blocks
- Pagination support
- More to come!
To make it easy for you we made sure you can configure as much as possible with the gatsby-config.js already.
All you have to do is change the relevant values. For reference you can find an overview of the config below:
siteMetadata: {
title: 'Level 2',
titleTemplate: '%s · Level 2',
image: '/images/logo.png',
author: 'Max Mustermann',
description: 'Gatsby starter to quickly setup your portfolio and boost it to the next level.',
url: 'https://knochenmark.github.io',
paginationPageSize: 5, // Amount of posts displayed per listing page.
},Under src/components/_config you will find further files that allow for configuration of social and navigation icons.
To change or add further menu links you can adjust the maps in src/components/_config/menu-links.js. If you want to change the icons that are being used you just have to change the icon property to another solid icon from font-awesome. Please refer to Font Awsome Solid Icons for available icons.
In src/components/_config/social-icon-list.js you are able to add further social links or edit the link property to point to your social profiles. Those social links are currently displayed in the header and footer. Feel free to reuse them where ever
you like.
In order to change the colors of the theme you can just change the values of the css variables in the src/styles/variables.styl file. Every color in the CSS is based on those css variables. This allows you to quickly apply a different theme of your choice.
body
// Colors
--bg-color #252839
--bg-content-color #1b1d2a
--title-color #fff
--body-color #ced8de
--primary-color #F1B631
--secondary-color #f18731
// Dimensions & Form
--radius 6px
--space 3.5rem
--header-height 80px
--content-width 860px
// Transition Times
--transition-fast 0.2s
--transition-normal 0.4s
--transition-slow 0.6s
// Misc
--bg-code rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3)
--border-color rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1)All content files and the information for the sections on the index page can be found in the content folder.
The folder contains subfolders for:
- blog posts
- projects
- sections
In order to create a blog post you just have to add a markdown file under content/posts and move images that are used in your blog post into content/posts/images.
The frontmatter information for each blog post is structured as following:
| Field | Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | Date | Publishing Date | 2020-05-31 |
| title | String | Post Title | 'Some title' |
| tags | String[] | List of Tags | ['foo', 'bar'] |
| published | Boolean | Is Published Flag | true |
| cover_image | String | Path of the Cover Image | ./images/my-image.jpg |
| canonical_url | Boolean | is Canonical Link Flag | false |
| description | String | Post short description | 'Some Description' |
Followed by the actual Blog content written in Markdown.
In order to create a project you create a markdown file under content/projects and move images that are used for your project into content/projects/images.
The frontmatter information for each blog post is structured as following:
| Field | Type | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | Date | Publishing Date | 2020-05-31 |
| title | String | Project Title | 'Gatsby Portfolio' |
| techs | String[] | List of Tags | ['React', 'Gatsby'] |
| featured | Boolean | Is Featured Flag | true |
| cover_image | String? | Path of the Cover Image | ./images/my-image.jpg |
| repo_link | String? | URL to the repository | 'https://github.com/facebook/react' |
| demo_link | String? | Post short description | 'https://reactjs.org/' |
Followed by the actual Project description in Markdown.
Currently you can edit the following sections via Markdown files Hero, About, Cards & Contact.
Those markdown files can be found in the following folder content/sections.
Each Markdown file contains frontmatter variables that can be edited.
Hint: The markdown content in those files can contain also external links if required.
The Card Section in our example portfolio is used to display features of the gatsby starter, but it can also be used to display any other arbitrary group of informations. Examples could be a card-grid of your most used technologies in your stack, your contributers or maybe a list of your customers. Go ahead and adjust the component to your own needs.
To edit the Cards Section you would only have to edit the markdown file. The frontmatter of the Cards component consists of a collection of card objects that looks as following:
cards:
- label: Markdown
icon: markdown
prefix: fab
description: All posts, projects and sections are editable via Markdown files.The label and description are just Strings that you can change to your needs.
The icon and prefix are specifics of fontawesome and have to be mapped accordingly. Also keep in mind that you have to make sure you've imported the used styles (for example fas and fab) in your library (see components/layout.js).
The possible font-awesome styles consist of:
fas = Solid
far = Regular
fa. = Light
fab = Brands