Deploying to Netlify

After I got the issue sorted out with Netlify failing to deploy, the next step is to set up a way to deploy that doesn’t involve manually triggering a deploy at GitHub. For future me, here’s how it works: Netlify runs a build and deploy step that is automatically triggered by any merge to master […]

Adventures stumbling through React/Gatsby

The sample theme I am using puts a link at the bottom of each single post with a “Leave a comment” link, but on the file at packages/gatsby-theme- tabor/src/templates/posts/single.js there’s a comment with at TODO to make comment functionality work. That’s far above my head on a static site at this point, so for a […]

Running into Trouble

This post is about the problem with trying to learn (or trying to teach) a new framework that is constantly evolving. Here’s what I have experience with: Deploying a Gatsby site from GitHub using Netlify to a example.netlify.com address As of this install that I am documenting now, setting up a headless WordPress installation locally. […]

Setting up the Local Gatsby Site

Now that I’ve gotten the WordPress install that will serve as the data source, the next step is to get things working locally. I got into my cloned repo by opening it in VS Code (by dragging that whole directory over the VS Code logo in my dock) and typing control + ~ to open […]