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_3

3. Adding Author Details to the Blog Site

Nabendu Biswas¹  

(1)

Bhopal, India

 

In the previous chapter we learned to display blogs from MDX files. We’ll now add the author details, which includes his or her Twitter, GitHub, and DEV accounts after every post. After that, we will add tags to the home page and also to each post.

Adding Author Details

We gave already saved these fields in the front matter, so we need to first update the GraphQL query in post-template.js . Next, we will add these into the destructuring and also will include icons for Twitter, GitHub, and DEV.

We are then adding a new ...