An opinionated Gatsby v2 starter with React Context, styled-components, page transitions, scroll events with IntersectionObserver and a focus on accessibility and SEO. Made for state-of-the-art marketing sites.

You can access a demo of this starter online at gatsby-universal.netlify.com.

Features

• [X] 🤩 Page Transitions, component-based (with no-js support)
• [X] 👮‍♂️ IntersectionObserver, component-based (with polyfill)
• [X] 🌿 React Context for global UI state, with SSR
• [X] 💅 styled-components v4
• [X] 💯 Optimized with Google Lighthouse (including test)
• [X] 🔥 Code Splitting of CSS and JS (component based)
• [X] 🔪 Inline SVG support
• [X] ⚙️ One config file for site-wide settings
• [X] 💙 Most social + meta tags in one component
• [X] 🖼 All favicons generated, only one icon file needed
• [X] 🌐 Offline support
• [X] 📄 Manifest support
• [X] 🗺 Sitemap support
• [X] 📱 Generated media queries for easy use
• [X] 😎 Prettier for code style
• [X] 👷‍♂️ CircleCI support
• [X] 🐙 Schema JSONLD
• [X] 🔎 size-plugin to keep an eye on your bundle sizes
• [X] 👨‍🏫 ESLint (based on eslint-plugin-react)

Do you have suggestions or feedback? Open an issue!

Lighthouse scores (on Netlify)

Usage

# Installation with `gatsby-cli`
gatsby new my-site https://github.com/fabe/gatsby-universal

# Installation with `git clone`
git clone my-site git@github.com:fabe/gatsby-universal.git
cd my-site
yarn install

# To develop
yarn develop

# To build
yarn build

# To test SSR (for Lighthouse etc.)
yarn ssr

# To format JS (precommit)
yarn format

# To generate favicons (included in `build`)
yarn build:favicons

Configuration

Find the site-wide configuration in site-config.js.

module.exports = {
  siteTitle: `Gatsby Universal`,
  siteTitleShort: `GatsbyU`,
  siteDescription: `An opinionated starter for Gatsby.`,
  siteUrl: `https://gu.fabianschultz.com`,
  themeColor: `#000`,
  backgroundColor: `#fff`,
  pathPrefix: null,
  logo: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/images/icon.png'),
  social: {
    twitter: `gatsbyjs`,
    fbAppId: `966242223397117`,
  },
};

🚨 Don't forget to update your robots.txt inside static/!

Folder structure

├── gatsby-browser.js # Specify how Gatsby renders pages in the browser
├── gatsby-config.js # Gatsby config, mostly taken from `site-config.js`
├── gatsby-node.js # Modify webpack config
├── gatsby-ssr.js # Specify how Gatsby builds pages
├── site-config.js # Global settings for the whole site, used by multiple scripts
├── content # Content & data, in both json and markdown
├── src
│   ├── components
│   │   ├── head # All meta tags etc.
│   │   ├── io # Intersection Observer component, uses render props
│   │   ├── layout # Layout component
│   │   │   ├── layout.css.js # .css.js for component's `styled-components`
│   │   │   └── layout.js
│   │   └── transition # Page Transition component, used by Gatsby APIs
│   ├── constants # Site-wide constants (breakpoints, colors, etc.)
│   ├── containers # Container components if store is needed
│   ├── helpers
│   │   ├── schemaGenerator.js # Generates JSON-LD schema.org snippets
│   │   └── mediaTemplates.js # Creates media queries for styled-components
│   ├── images # Images needed by the site/theme (not content)
│   ├── pages
│   ├── store # Store and provider of a React.createContext instance
│   └── global.css.js # Global CSS
└── scripts
    ├── lighthouse.test.js # Tests the site specified inside `site-config.js` with Google Lighthouse (WIP)
    └── favicons.js # Generates favicons and manifest using one png only.

Author

• Fabian Schultz (@fschultz_) - Stink Studios