Barcadia V2 Starter

Version 2 Release Notes

Barcadia is a GatsbyJS starter theme that uses Contentful for content management. It includes the main configuration files found in Gatsby.

Getting started

1. Create a Gatsby site.

   Use the Gatsby CLI to create a new site, specifying the Barcadia starter.

   # create a new Gatsby site using the barcadia starter
   gatsby new my-barcadia-starter https://github.com/bagseye/barcadia

2. Before running Gatsby Develop

   You'll need to setup a free account with Contentful Here and create a space ID and access token for your new site.

   Once these are generated create a new file in the site root called .env.development and populate it with the following information:

   CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID={YOUR SPACE ID}
   CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN={YOUR ACCESS TOKEN}
   

   NOTE - Ensure this file has been added to your .gitignore to prevent it from being tracked

3. Start developing.

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

   cd my-barcadia-starter/
   gatsby develop

4. Import Content-model.json on Contentful Make a Json file(e.g. example-config.json) with the following content.

   {
     "spaceId": "SPACE_ID",
     "managementToken": "Generate a management token from the APIs Tab on contentful dashboard",
     "contentFile": "content-model.json"
    }
   

   Important Note: you need contentful globally installed(npm i -g contentful-cli) before the next step Then Run this Command from your terminal: contentful space import --config example-config.json

5. Open your site

   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-barcadia-starter directory in your code editor of choice and edit src/pages/index.js. Save your changes and the browser will update in real time!

6. Build your site

   When you are ready to build your production site, you will need to create a .env.production file that will contain the CONTENTFUL_SPACE_ID and CONTENTFUL_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variables. After that is set up, you can run npm run build or gatsby build and Gatsby will build your site.

CMS Content Model

Follow the steps for importing data with Contentful [Here](https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/tutorials/cli/import-and-export) using the example file `content-model.json`, found in the site root.

🧐 What's inside?

A quick look at the top-level files and directories . ├── node_modules ├── src ├── .gitignore ├── .prettierignore ├── .prettierrc ├── content-model.json ├── gatsby-config.js ├── gatsby-node.js ├── LICENSE ├── package-lock.json ├── package.json └── README.md

1. /node_modules: This directory contains all of the modules of code that your project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed.

2. /src: This directory will contain all of the code related to what you will see on the front-end of your site (what you see in the browser) such as your site header or a page template. src is a convention for “source code”.

3. .gitignore: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for.

4. .prettierrc: This is a configuration file for Prettier. Prettier is a tool to help keep the formatting of your code consistent.

5. gatsby-browser.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby browser APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting the browser.

6. gatsby-config.js: This is the main configuration file for a Gatsby site. This is where you can specify information about your site (metadata) like the site title and description, which Gatsby plugins you’d like to include, etc. (Check out the config docs for more detail).

7. gatsby-node.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby Node APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting pieces of the site build process.

8. gatsby-ssr.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby server-side rendering APIs (if any). These allow customization of default Gatsby settings affecting server-side rendering.

9. LICENSE: Gatsby is licensed under the MIT license.

10. package-lock.json (See package.json below, first). This is an automatically generated file based on the exact versions of your npm dependencies that were installed for your project. (You won’t change this file directly).

11. package.json: A manifest file for Node.js projects, which includes things like metadata (the project’s name, author, etc). This manifest is how npm knows which packages to install for your project.

12. README.md: A text file containing useful reference information about your project.

🎓 Learning Gatsby

Looking for more guidance? Full documentation for Gatsby lives on the website. Here are some places to start:

• For most developers, we recommend starting with our in-depth tutorial for creating a site with Gatsby. It starts with zero assumptions about your level of ability and walks through every step of the process.

• To dive straight into code samples, head to our documentation. In particular, check out the Guides, API Reference, and Advanced Tutorials sections in the sidebar.

Photo Credits

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