kevinandsam.travel

Our travel blog kevinandsam.travel written using Gatsby.

For an interesting write up about most of the features read An Over-Engineered Travel Blog on my personal blog.

About

Gatsby is configured using three top level files gatsby-browser.js, gatsby-config.js and gatsby-node.js. gatsby-config.js file specifies which plugins to use and passes some arguments to plugins if required. The gatsby-node.js hooks into Gatsby's Node API and is used to dynamically create React components from Markdown files.

Blog posts are automatically generated for each /blog/articles/*/index.md file. Images for the blog go in this folder and are referenced relatively in the code.

Social media data is exported then imported into blog/facebook/ and blog/instagram/. The posts are defined in a json file and image and video assets are stored in local folders.

• sometimes it seems that you need to clear gatsby's cache after changing this data

Setup

1. Install nodejs and yarn
2. Run yarn install to fetch the dependencies specified in package.json
3. Run yarn start to start the development server
4. Visit http://localhost:8000 after the server has finished booting

Debugging

Gatsby exposes a GraphiQL server at http://localhost:8000/___graphql which is useful to help build queries.

Sharp is a pain in the ass. I have found that yarn build is more successful and yarn start if it is acting up.

Tools

There are some scripts in /bin for various purposes like printing the durations we are staying / stayed in each country.