Gatsby
Gatsby is a framework helping developers build websites faster and with better results overall, while being compatible with a wide range of other systems out-of-the-box.
We have a feature complete Gatsby theme coming up, which automatically enables all of your (own, custom!) components to be usable on your website without additional work. You can see the Gatsby theme in action today, on our own website:
https://www.kickstartDS.com
To learn more about Gatsby, visit their official website.
Usage with kickstartDS
Some tips on combining Gatsby and kickstartDS.
Features
Using our upcoming theme will mean benefitting from included Gatsby Node definitions for kickstartDS compatible pages, and even already existing resolvers to connect to one of the following CMS as a headless content providers:
- WordPress (see our own blog for an example of that combination): https://www.kickstartDS.com/blog/
- Contentful (see our glossary for an example of that combination): https://www.kickstartDS.com/glossary/typescript/
- Netlify CMS (see our main marketing- and landing pages): https://www.kickstartDS.com/
- MDX
Templates
Ready-made templates include (you can preview them in our Storybook):
- Content Page (Storybook)
- Glossary Entry Page (Storybook)
- Blog List Page (Storybook)
- Blog Detail Page (Storybook)
This allows for extremely flexible combinations of data sources for your website, all while using one uniform frontend (your Design System) and minimizing implementation work, even when creating your completely new and custom transformer.
Other
It will also handle the following things for you out-of-the-box:
- Integrated SEO independent of used source systems
- Centralized menu concept
- Performance optimization
Interested?
Get in contact if you want to learn more! We'll flesh out this part of our documentation soon, you may also sign up for a notification when this is done.