[Gatsby] Install Gatsby and Scaffold a Blog

In this lesson, you’ll install Gatsby and the plugins that give the default starter the ability to transform Markdown into HTML.

Install:

npm i -g gatsby-cli

Create a project:

gatsby new my-blog

cd to the project and install some dependenicy.

yarn add gatsby-source-filesystem gatsby-transformer-remark

Add libs to the config file:

module.exports = {
  siteMetadata: {
    title: `Gatsby Default Starter`,
  },
  plugins: [
    `gatsby-plugin-react-helmet`,
    `gatsby-transformer-remark`,
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-filesystem`,
      options: {
        name: `src`,
        path: `${__dirname}/src`
      }
    }
  ],
}

Run:

gatsby serve

or

gatsby develop