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A ready-to-use, customizable personal blog with minimalist design

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  gatsby-blog-mdx
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## Description

A ready-to-use, customizable personal blog with minimalistic design

## Demo

[Demo](https://gatsby-blog-mdx-demo.pages.dev/) is available here

## Features

- Simple blog with responsive design

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EllisMin/gatsby-blog-mdx/master/_assets/readme-images/imac-phone.png)

- Light / Dark Mode Switch

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EllisMin/gatsby-blog-mdx/master/_assets/readme-images/theme-chg.gif)

- Fast !

- **gatsby-blog-mdx** is built on top of [Gatsby.js](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/) that pre-builds pages that's delivered to viewers instantly

- Mdx (or Markdown) to create post & about page

- **Mdx** enables to use React components along with markdown in your post. This blog also includes some pre-built components to enhance your blog experience.

- [Learn more](https://gatsby-blog-mdx-demo.pages.dev/2020/05/md-mdx/)

- Code syntax highlighting (Light / Dark)

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EllisMin/gatsby-blog-mdx/master/_assets/readme-images/light-dark-code.png)

- Comments plugins

- Supports Facebook | Disqus | Utterances(GitHub) Comments

* Social Media Links & Share Buttons

* Google Analytics

- Google Analytics measure how users interact with your blog

- SEO + sitemap + RSS

- Auto generates metadata & sitemap & rss to boost search engine result for your website.

* Easy & Highly Customizable

- Customize everything by tweaking [customize.js](https://gatsby-blog-mdx-demo.pages.dev/2020/05/4-customize/)

## Get Started 🚀

### More detailed guide is available on [Demo site](https://gatsby-blog-mdx-demo.pages.dev)

1.  **Download using npx | npm**

```bash{promptUser: root}{outputLines: 1, 3}
    # Using npx
    npx gatsby new my-blog https://github.com/EllisMin/gatsby-blog-mdx
    # Using npm
    npm i -g gatsby-cli && gatsby new my-blog https://github.com/EllisMin/gatsby-blog-mdx
    ```

> If you haven't, [download npm](https://nodejs.org/en/) with Node.js

2.  **That's it! Run your blog locally**

```bash{promptUser: root}
    cd my-blog
    npm start
    ```

Then, open your web browser and go to `localhost:8000`

**Post Example**

Create `*.mdx` under `_posts` directory in the root directory

```
    ---
    title: First Post
    date: 2020-05-23
    tags: [category1]
    ---

## First post
    This is first post
    ```

### Learn more about [creating post](https://gatsby-blog-mdx-demo.pages.dev/2020/05/3-create-post/)

3.  **Modify `customize.js` to your needs**

### Learn more about [customizing config](https://gatsby-blog-mdx-demo.pages.dev/2020/05/4-customize/)

4.  **Deploy your Blog on Netlify 💫**

### Learn [how to deploy your blog online](https://gatsby-blog-mdx-demo.pages.dev/2020/05/5-deploy/)

## What's inside? 🔍
```
.
├── _assets             # Contains profile image & favicon
├── _posts              # All of your posts goes in here as well as any other files
├── src                 # All the front-end source code
├── customize.js        # ----> Modify this to customize your blog
├── customize-styles.js # ----> Modify this to customize stylings
├── ...
├── .gitignore          # Contains file names that won't be pushed to git repository
├── .prettierrc         # Helps formatting your code
├── gatsby-browser.js   # Contains gatsby browser APIs / extension of default gatsby settings
├── gatsby-config.js    # Contains site meta data & gatsby plugins
├── gatsby-node.js      # Contains gatsby node APIs--it's where post pages & slugs are created
├── gatsby-rss.js       # Contains gatsby RSS feed plugin configuration
├── gatsby-ssr.js       # Contains gatsby server-side rendering APIs
├── LICENSE             # Contains MIT License
├── package-lock.json   # Contains versions of npm dependencies used for this project
├── package.json        # Node.js manifest file that contains project's meta data
└── README.md           # Markdown file that describes the project
```

## Issues

[Issues](https://github.com/EllisMin/gatsby-blog-mdx/issues)

## License

[MIT](https://github.com/EllisMin/gatsby-blog-mdx/blob/master/LICENSE)

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