Flotiq Starter - Gatsby Blog

Flotiq Gatsby

In this article, we will show you our new blog starter created by Flotiq. Headless CMS allows you to quickly deploy and manage your blog. With Flotiq starters you can easily design and customize any project. Enjoy Flotiq.

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By Flotiq team

Gatsby blog starter for creating a modern blog with Flotiq headless CMS

Blog starter designed and managed by Flotiq

Gradient blog is a modern headless CMS blog starter for businesses, freelancers or for personal uses. It was created to display the content in a clear and creative manner. It will fascinate your audience and provide them with a unique time.

Whether it is Design, Product, Corporate, Engineering, or anything else you can imagine, it will show in a purposeful layout.

Features

Responsive design using UI kit
Responsive navigation
Rich media
Contact Form created with Flotiq Forms
Easy to deploy
Maximised page speed score
SEO friendly
Web fonts - built using fonts from Google Fonts

Lighthouse report

This project use:

Flotiq - Headless CMS for string your data (create account for free)
Tailwind - utility-first CSS framework
Flotiq source plugin - connector for fetching data from Flotiq
Flotiq components for react - components library designed and written to work perfectly with Flotiq Content Objects and display your data beautifully

Quick start

1. Start the project from template using Flotiq CLI

npm i –g flotiq-cli 
flotiq start flotiq-gatsby-blog-1 https://github.com/flotiq/flotiq-gatsby-blog-1.git [flotiqApiKey]

flotiqApiKey - Read and write API key to your Flotiq account
projectName - project name or project path (if you wish to start a project in or import data from the current directory - use .)

2. You can also start the project from template using Gatsby CLI

gatsby new my-hello-world-starter https://github.com/flotiq/flotiq-gatsby-blog-1.git

3. Configure application

The next step is to configure our application to know from where it has to fetch the data.

You need to create a file called .env.development inside the root of the directory, with the following structure:

GATSBY_FLOTIQ_API_KEY=YOUR FLOTIQ API KEY GA_TRACKING_ID=YOUR GA TRACKING KEY

4. Start developing

Navigate into your new site’s directory and start it up.

cd flotiq-gatsby-blog-1/ gatsby develop

This step is optional and is not necessary if you used flotiq-cli to start the project.

If you wish to import example data to your account, before running gatsby develop run:

flotiq import . [flotiqApiKey]

It will add two example objects to your Flotiq account.

Note: You need to put your Read and write API key as the flotiqApiKey for import to work. You don't need any content types in your account.

5. 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.

Open the flotiq-gatsby-blog-1 directory in your code editor of choice and edit src/templates/index.js. Save your changes and the browser will update in real-time!

6. Manage your content using Flotiq editor

You can now easily manage your content using Flotiq editor

Made with love & passion by Flotiq.

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