gatsby-starter-github-portfolio

This is a starter site that attempts to follow the following flow:

1. During development:

• fetch data from github
• filter and sort the data you got from github

2. At build time:

• static results get you a static page

3. When accessing the site:

• no API calls to Github's API

Install

npm install gatsby-starter-github-portfolio

Configuration

• get a personal access token from github.
• create a new file .env and save your token:

TOKEN=very-long-unreadable-string-goes-here

• modify gatsby-config.js. Replace ldd (my user name) with yours. For example:

  q: "author:someUser is:merged state:closed type:pr sort:comments",
  author: "someUser"

Run

• yarn develop or npm develop for development

• yarn build or npm build to create a build that you can deploy to your favourite host

Tips and tricks

You probably want to look at gatsby-source-github-api for how to make valid queries.

Ideally, you should only modify:

• gatsby-config.js to change the graphQL query from the github API
• main.js to change the query on the data
• dataParser.js to filter and sort the data you got

FAQ

There was an error in your GraphQL query

• make sure you have a token and that you saved it in a file named .env
• if you want to make a RAW github v4 Query, do it in gatsby-config.js
  • My plugin, gatsby-source-github-api takes an optional field, graphQLQuery, that let's you define it