Starting my blog site

Today I moved on from the tutorial and began to work on the blog site structure and layout. One part of Gatsby that I was initially not used to was the feature of being able to programmatically.

In Gatsby, your sites layout is inferred by GraphQL through the nodes and a schema is developed, which allows querying to happen.

I set up some functions to handle the specific pathing names I wanted based off the file names. Then I set up the createPages function to create these pagesby using the graphql query of these nodes. GraphQL is truly a powerful tool to have, albeit more complicated to grasp at the beginning. Luckily I had used this in my previous job.

I managed to work through a significant chunk of the website structure, and started on implementing the gatsby provided routing solutions.

Those Burger Menus

Anyone who has had experience with building websites knows about the "fun" of building a beautiful burger menu. Luckily, I found this great Yarn package react-burger-menu that is excellent to use.

Life Happens Too

I spent less time working on my Deep Dive today as I had some family time instead. As I mentioned, being extremely hard on myself about scheduling and the amount of hours was not the point of this experiment. I found that accepting breaks and time for other priorities strengthened my learning at other times.

My thoughts on the day

I noticed I was less engaged in being curious on this day. I'm unsure what the reason for this was, perhaps because I was so invested in the Gatsby blog task. Overall though I was once again happy with the progress, and really enjoying what I was working through.