gatsby-course-starter

A Gatsby starter to get you started creating educational materials using Markdown

Get Started

1. npm install --global gatsby-cli - make sure you're on Gatsby v2+
   • See docs here if you need help
2. gatsby new course-website https://github.com/btholt/gatsby-course-starter
3. cd course-website
4. npm run dev
5. Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser

Lessons

The crux of this site is are the lessons. Provided are two examples. Each lesson needs a frontmattter path, order, and title. Generally you should make the path and the file name match for ease of finding it.

• path - needs a leading slash. This will be slug of the lesson
• title - will be the title displayed on the Table of Contents and on the page itself
• order - the order of which the item should appear in the table of contents. should in <number><capital letter> format where the number corresponds to the section it's and the letter corresponds to the order of the lesson inside the section, e.g. 3B
• section - the title of the section that the article is in. Only the first lesson for each section will be used.

On just the first lesson of every section

• description – a one-to-three sentence summary of the lesson. used for the meta tag for social shares and SEO. if no description is given, the siteMetadata.description for the site is used.
• icon - the Font Awesome icon you want for the home page of the site

Config

Inside of gatsby-config.js be sure to fill out the siteMetadata fields, including title, subtitle, description, and keywords.

For the social links, you can leave them as empty strings if you want to omit them.

Themes

All the variables for theme are in the variables.css file. You can also change the Prism.js theme.

GitHub Pages

If you do want to deploy to GitHub pages, make sure you add the name of the repo to the pathPrefix property in gatsby-config.js so that it will correctly make all the links.

GitHub Actions

This site is ready to deployed to GitHub Pages out of the box with GitHub Actions. If you do not want to deploy this to GitHub Pages, delete the .github directory.

If you do want to deploy this to GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions, you need to do a few things.

1. Make sure you're using the main branch as your default, not master.
2. Under settings in your repo, under the Actions tab, make sure your repo allows Actions to run, either from anybody or just you. Also make sure that under Workflow Permissions that GITHUB_TOKEN has access to Read and Write permissions. These are both set by default so no action here needed if this is a new repo and you haven't changed anything.
3. Now once you commit your code, it should automatically deploy your GitHub Pages site should deploy automatically!

Example Sites

• This repo itself
• Complete Intro to Computer Science

CSV

If you run npm run csv, a CSV will be generated with all the various lessons' frontmatter outputted to public/lessons.csv. You can change the path by changing the OUTPUT_CSV_PATH environment variable.

Another CSV will be output to public/links.csv where it pull all the links out of each lesson and put them into a CSV. This path can be modified by setting the LINKS_CSV_PATH environment variable.

License

The code is this repo is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

I include the CC-BY-NC-4.0 license for the content; this is what I recommend you license your content under: anyone can use and share the content but they cannot sell it; only you can.