Start a blog in 15 min.

May 28, 2020

How to start a blog in 15 min

Start with cloning the gatsby gatsby-starter-blog Template 🙈

git clone https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog.git

we got the template the next question is where to host, as hosting can be expensive and we are looking at a ~100-page static website. there is no need for hosting, here is where GitHub pages come to the rescue 🔥. we will go in steps from now:

Make a Github repo named username.github.io (this will be your domain) 🌏
Then make a remote with this repo from the cloned directory
The tricky 🎩 part is that GitHub only allows the master branch to launch the site (which means gh-page package won’t work 😢)
But worry not I have found a work around, Initialize git in the public directory in the cloned repo, If public directory not found run:
```
gatsby build
```
and then
```
cd public && git init
```
Add this to “scripts” in package.json file. so that you can deploy changes with a single command npm run masterdeploy
```
"masterdeploy": `gatsby build && cd public && git add . 
&& git commit -m 'default' && git push origin master`
```
Make necessary changes to the repo to make it your own.
run this in terminal
```
npm run masterdeploy
```
There is no step 8, You are all done

Happy blogging 😃

I will put customization I made in a later post stay tooned.