Gatsby static site generation with content written in Markdown
personal-website — Gatsby Portfolio Template
By rohanvachheta
A personal website and blog template built with Gatsby and Markdown, using Styled Components, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, and React Font Awesome, under the MIT license.
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Styling layer uses Styled Components and Tailwind CSS
Framer Motion provides page animations, icons from React Font Awesome
README provides the complete command flow for gatsby new/develop/build/serve
Deployment buttons for Netlify and ZEIT Now
MIT license, permitting free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution
Template Details
This is a personal website and blog template built with Gatsby, with content organized in Markdown, styled using Styled Components and Tailwind CSS, animated with Framer Motion, and icons from React Font Awesome. The repository description is "made from Gatsby templates"; the README states it originates from the gatsby-markdown-personal-website starter and provides the standard workflow of gatsby new, gatsby develop, gatsby build, and gatsby serve, along with deployment buttons for Netlify and ZEIT Now.
The template includes actual screenshots of the desktop homepage, mobile homepage, and one inner page (/projects/featured/), which can be used to assess page structure and responsive behavior. The repository uses the MIT license, permitting free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of this version of the code, provided the copyright and license notice are retained when distributing.
Note: third-party assets such as images, fonts, and icons in the demo must be checked separately under their respective licenses and cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license; external services such as domains and hosting may incur additional charges. The repository does not provide further information on content models, SEO configuration, or accessibility, so you should review the source code to confirm before use.
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Use Cases
- Building a personal homepage with a blog post list
- Maintaining a project showcase page (e.g., /projects/featured/) with Markdown
- As a starting point for learning and customizing a Gatsby + Markdown workflow
- Deploying to static hosting platforms such as Netlify
Suitable For
- Developers who need a personal website and blog
- Users familiar with or willing to learn Gatsby and Markdown
- Those who want to freely modify and distribute code under the MIT license
Getting started & customization
Use these recorded setup notes alongside the repository instructions for your chosen version.
- 1
Create a site with gatsby new my-site-name https://github.com/SaimirKapaj/gatsby-markdown-personal-website
- 2
Run gatsby develop in the project directory and access http://localhost:8000 locally
- 3
Run gatsby build to generate a production build, then use gatsby serve to preview locally at http://localhost:9000
- 4
Third-party assets such as images, fonts, and icons in the demo must be checked separately under their respective licenses
- 5
External services such as domains and hosting may incur additional charges
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Usage conditions & limitations
Free to use · keep license noticeThis entry covers the free version under the MIT license in a public repository; the free scope applies to this version of the code and does not imply that external services or third-party assets are free.
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- Permits free use, modification, commercial use, and distribution of this version of the code.
- When distributing copies or substantial portions of the code, retain the original author's copyright notice and the full MIT license notice.
- The code is provided as is; warranties and limitations of liability are governed by the original license and applicable law.
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- Demo images, fonts, icons, and other third-party assets must be checked under their respective licenses and cannot be judged solely by the code's MIT license.
- External services such as domains, hosting, databases, payments, or AI may incur additional charges.
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Template Information
- Source platforms
- GitHub
- Documentation and maintenance reference score
- Partly documented · 69 / 100
- Technologies
- Gatsby · React
- Website type
- Portfolio
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- 2025-06-15
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Source file / repository# Gatsby Markdown Personal Website
This is a personal website / blog using [Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.org/), [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/), [Styled Components](https://styled-components.com/), [Talwind CSS](https://tailwindcss.com/), [Framer Motion](https://www.framer.com/motion/) & [React Font Awesome](https://github.com/FortAwesome/react-fontawesome).
## Demo
[Gatsby Markdown Personal Website](https://gatsby-markdown-personal-website.netlify.app/)
## Quick start
1. **Create a Gatsby site.**
Use the Gatsby CLI to create a new site, using the Gatsby Markdown Personal Website starter.
```shell
gatsby new my-site-name https://github.com/SaimirKapaj/gatsby-markdown-personal-website
```
2. **Develop**
Navigate into your new site’s directory and start the development environment.
```shell
gatsby develop
```
Your site is now running at `http://localhost:8000`
3. **Build**
Get an optimized production build for your site generating static HTML and JavaScript, CSS bundles.
```shell
gatsby build
```
4. **Serve**
Starts a local server for testing your production site.
```shell
gatsby serve
```
Your production site is now running at `http://localhost:9000`
## Deploy
[](https://app.netlify.com/start/deploy?repository=https://github.com/SaimirKapaj/gatsby-markdown-personal-website)
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