It’s 2020 and I finally built myself a new website using Gatsby, TypeScript, and Netlify.
Overall I’m really impressed with how nice the blog setup and documentation are for Gatsby. I highly recommend Gatsby to easily build a personal or business website. It’s so fast and if you know React, you’ll be up and running in no time, especially when you deploy to Netlify! 🚀
Top 3 favorite aspects of my website
- the blog is MDX so it supports React components in the markdown, it’s also got theme-aware syntax highlighting even inline:
const friend: string = "cactus"; - Tailwind is now my favorite CSS framework, especially the auto-complete Tailwind VS Code Intellisense
- it auto-deploys when I push to github! thanks netlify!
Top 3 things I want to build
- the /music section 🎸
- tagging for blog posts and a blog index page to search blog posts and filter-by-tag
- expanding the /coding section with curriculum, guides, or maybe video tutorials?
New year, new goals 👏
This year I’m planning on blogging frequently about the new tech I’m working with (TypeScript, GraphQL, Gatsby, Netlify), even if they’re small TIL posts.
‘Til next time!