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Revamping my personal site with Gatsby

Sunny Singh on January 05, 2019

Note: This article was originally written for my personal blog. I am republishing it here for the DEV community. It has been a while. My last re...
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dAVE Inden

Great article. I am currently in the process of building my own personal site for my work. I have been using Gatsby and loving it. I agree that it takes care of a lot of things, like performance, for you and leaves you to focus on your content while being powerful enough to let you work how you want.
I didn't know about React Kawaii until reading this article. It looks so cool! I feel like I definitely need to work those into my page. :)

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Sunny Singh

Thank you. React Kawaii is a fun touch to add, glad to have shared it with you!

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Michael

Love the new design; you took a similar approach I am working on. Darker theme is easier on the eyes, though you left the font color a bit brighter which I find a bit straining. I like the large first letter effect but it is odd sometimes like your article starting with 2018, it leads with a large 2.

Really nice design!

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Sunny Singh

Thanks Michael. Yeah I guess using a number for a drop cap isn't common. I'll consider changing that article to maybe say "This 2018" or something.

I probably should have spent a bit more time tweaking the text color. Do you have a color suggestion that doesn't create a contrast issue for accessibility?

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Benjamin Spak

Thanks for laying this out Sunny! Defiantly going to use this as a template for my rework.

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Sunny Singh

Kind words Ben! My site is open sourced so feel free to use what you want.

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Benjamin Spak

Right on! Thanks _^

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Strahinja Laktovic

Thanks for the article, Sunny. Your page is very nice, love the dark theme. Also, as an anime/manga fan I'm really glad that i learned about React Kawaii. It is kawaii, indeed. :)

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Sunny Singh

Thanks Strahinja! Haha happy to have shared React Kawaii. I'm into a bit of anime myself.

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Kyle Stephens

Site seems very fast. Looks good too; nice & clean. Good job.

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Sunny Singh

Thanks for the kind words Kyle!

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ZeptoBook

Here is a step by step guide about how to create your blog site using Gatsby.
zeptobook.com/create-your-blog-sit...