John Polacek

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Making a Gatsby Events List Starter

Originally published on 3/16/2019

I recently migrated my blog from WordPress to Gatsby. Next up, I’m going to do the same for chicagotechevents.com

As a first step, I made a very basic events list Gatsby Starter, forked from the Gatsby blog starter. See it in action at gatsby-starter-events-list.netlify.com/ and check out the code on Github.

Once again, super easy to build out with my Styled System HTML components and Styled System + Styled Compnents.

Next up, I'm going to figure out how to set it up to accept event submissions. Looks like I should be able to set up a Netlify Function that generates a pull request with a new markdown file that will trigger a Gatsby build when merged.

Thanks to David Wells for answering my questions about this and sharing his example with me for how to do this.