edvicaty / gatsby-starter-app-contentstack

Create a marketing website using Gatsby

About Contentstack: Contentstack is a headless CMS with an API-first approach that puts content at the centre. It is designed to simplify the process of publication by separating code from content.

About this project: Create professional marketing-themed website using Gatsby.

Live Demo

You can check the live demo to get first-hand experience of the website.

Prerequisites

• Install nodejs on your system.
• Install Gatsby CLI.

npm install -g gatsby-cli

Clone the repo

Clone the following repo. It contains all the required dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/contentstack/gatsby-starter-app-contentstack.git

Install dependencies

Go to the gatsby-starter-contentstack folder, and run the following:

• cd gatsby-starter-contentstack
• npm install

This downloads the required files and initializes the site.

Launch Your Gatsby Server

Go to the gatsby-starter folder, and run the following:

• cd gatsby-starter-contentstack

• npm run develop

Update Contentstack secrets

Copy the .env.sample file to .env.development and .env.production and update with your Contentstack details, including your API key and delivery token.

It should end up looking something like:

CONTENTSTACK_API_KEY='hunter2'
CONTENTSTACK_DELIVERY_TOKEN='hunter2token'
CONTENTSTACK_ENVIRONMENT='publishing environment'
CONTENTSTACK_HOSTED_URL='hosted site url'
CONTENTSTACK_CDN="optional"