About
Gatsby Theme Golden Condor
Gatsby Theme Golden Condor is a markdown/MDX blog/docs/anything theme for Gatsby
It has all this stuff:
- Theming & dark mode via theme-ui
- Awesome syntax highlighting via rehype-pretty-code
- Unlimited collections (custom post types)
- Categories & tags
- Configurable layouts
- Configurable recent/related posts grids
- Built in SEO
- TOC with active section highlighting
- Configurable Sidebar navigation
- Component shadowing
Who is this for?
This theme has been developed to make customizations relatively easy - quite a lot can be achieved just by editing the shadowed theme file src/gatsby-theme-golden-condor/theme/index.js and making some adjustments to the theme options for collections.
Having said that, a good amount of Gatsby/React experience will unlock most of the power due to Theme componenet shadowing.
I Think if you're building a site with MDX you probably know what you're doing ;)
Motivation
I really just wanted to a) make a gatsby theme and b) try to do so only using the File System Route API
I kind of built out the basic blog theme in 2020 and left it for dead. Later on in 2021 I had the need to produce a docs site for another project, so I began refining the theme and adding various extras like syntax highlighting, multiple content types and layout configurations.
Was using the File System Route API worth it? There's a whole lot of customization in gatsby-node.js regardless, and I still haven't figured out a way to do pagination with it. I'd say it's not quite there in terms of a catch-all solution.
Golden Condor? This theme is suspiciously purple!
- Naming things is hard
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