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My Attempt at GatsbyJS - Take Two!

January 15, 2020

This is my first post on my GatsbyJS generated site! But probably my second / third attempt to start one.

The first time I did it was after I took a webinar with Tae’lur Alexis! It was pretty late at night and instead of letting the information sink in I dived head first into trying to set up my blog. Well needless to say that did not go well. The more frustrated I got with the errors popping up, the more I thought I was helping the situation the worse it got.

Sometimes it’s good to just stop and come back another day. Also this is a completely new tool for me. So I came back with a fresh mind after riding the 6 miles to the coffee shop and I sat down and Google searched ‘How To Start a Gatbsy.js Blog’ and I ran across Dave Ceddia’s post ‘Start at blog in 2019 with Gatsby.js and Netlify.’

This time with a clearer mind and a nice cup of tea I sat down and went line by line. Programming is really about following directions! Who would have thought?!


Written by Courtney Pure. Currently lives and works in Long Island, New York. She builds things with code and makes things move with animation and motion graphics! You should follow her on Twitter