Extending Gatsby: Create a Blog Site Using MDX, CDN, and Netlify

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N. BiswasExtending Gatsbyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6855-1_1

1. Setting up the Blog Site

Nabendu Biswas¹  

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Bhopal, India

 

This is the first in a series of eight chapters in which you will learn how to create a personal blog site with MDX, a format that lets you use React components in markdown files. Here, we’ll complete the basic setup for the project, and create different pages, the navbar, and a footer with styling.

By the end of the book our web app will contain the following elements:

• A home page similar to dev.to with a navigation feature in the top menu (Chapter 1).

• Blogs that expand the whole page like medium, which are easy to read (Chapter ...