Castmaker

A static page builder for coming soon pages powered by With Pulp.

Built with GatsyJS.

Features

• Markdown Blog
  • Categories
  • Tags
  • Navigation
  • Disqus
  • Share
• Subscribe
  • Mailchimp (incomplete)
    • form validation doesn't work
    • needs to be refactored (currently depends on jquery)
  • Social Media
• Counter
  • countdown from future date
  • countup from past date

Backlog

• Create reusable templates for different pages
  • Can use single template for: /updates, /updates/categories/, /updates/tags/
  • Homepage template (unique)
  • About Page Template (default page template)
• Create a remark plugin for gatsby
  • See this issue gatsbyjs/gatsby#1997
  • Use this plugin as example: https://github.com/zestedesavoir/zmarkdown/tree/master/packages/remark-align

Getting Started

Install this starter (assuming Gatsby is installed) by running from your CLI:

gatsby new castmaker https://github.com/withpulp/castmaker
npm run develop

Or you can fork the project, make your changes there and merge new features when needed.

Alternatively:

git clone https://github.com/withpulp/castmaker castmaker # Clone the project
cd castmaker
rm -rf .git # So you can have your own changes stored in VCS.
npm install # or yarn
npm run develop

Configuration

Edit the export object in data/config:

You can also optionally set pathPrefix:

module.exports = {
 // Note: it must *not* have a trailing slash.
      pathPrefix: '/castmaker', // Prefixes all links. For cases when deployed to withpulp.github.io/castmaker/.
}

WARNING: Make sure to edit static/robots.txt to include your domain for the sitemap!

Pages and Templates

• Edit export objects for pages in data/pages
• Edit export objects for templates in data/templates

These objects are options for the containers and components used on the pages

Deployment

Add your domain to src/CNAME

To deploy to github pages: npm run build:gh

Make sure you update your registrars DNS to point to github's IP