Gatsby site from scratch #1: Creating a project without a starter template

Build a Gatsby site fresh, without a starter or boilerplate, to get more familiar with what Gatsby requires for a minimal site.

0:00 - Introduction
1:55 - Creating the project
4:29 - Local server running without pages
5:16 - Creating the first page
7:00 - Using the createPages API for manual page creation
9:00 - Creating the template for createPage to use
11:11 - Creating a data file for dynamic page generation
13:34 - Using Context to pass data to our template
16:34 - Adding the build/serve scripts for a production version
17:50 - Using Gatsby's documentation to learn more about the API

Here is the Gatsby Docs reference I showed for createPages:

Here is the next video in the series:

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[andrewsorenson]

There's so much more depth here than a basic docs file. Really cool having your explanations from scratch. Thanks for walking through adding scripts for developing, going through the dependency error, and also including tips like how to quickly add a new file with ancestry in VSCode

[alexhungerford]

background and font are really difficult to see (size & color)

[barcannon]

I always wanted to learn to code from John Wick

[williamweisz]

I don't understand what is going on through this tutorial. I think a person needs a lot more React experience and knowing how to set up the develop environment before tackling this.