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How I Built My Blog with Gatsby and Ghost
The tech stack and inspiration to get you started
At the risk of overdoing the “new year” narrative, it seemed that 2019 was a year of learning for me. I learned about travel, working on a team, and life outside of university. I also picked up a bunch of useful technical skills, many of which were related to front-end development.
I started with courses, books, and projects on the basics: HTML, CSS, and Javascript. After that, I moved into frameworks and got familiar with React and Gatsby.
It took longer than I would’ve liked, but eventually, I put those new skills to work. I’ve been blogging and hosting my website for some time, so that seemed like a great place to start! I’ll outline how I rebuilt my site from research to implementation.
Deciding on a tech stack
Early on, it became clear that I needed to make a decision on what technologies I wanted to use. Since a lot of my learning was focused on Javascript and React, I got started there.
You might not need a static site generator, but man, they are nice. Considering the lightweight and well, static, nature of a personal blog, it made a lot of sense for me. Deciding which SSG to go with was a little more difficult. I was able to reduce my…
