Using Gatsby Starters

Introduction to Gatsby starters

Gatsby starters are boilerplate Gatsby sites that let us set up a new site fast. Gatsby and the community maintain these starters. Gatsby starters are standalone sites with a specific predefined and pre-configured functionality on top of which we build our own custom site. We can think of starters as templates that contain plugins (for example, data source plugins) and themes that suit our needs.

After using a starter to bootstrap our project, we have to make custom changes to get our desired result. These changes include styling, content addition or modification, tweaking existing functionality, etc. Sometimes, these changes are minimal. Other times, we go big to get distinct custom sites that don’t look the same as any other site running on the ...