How to add comments to your Gatsby blog

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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  • Go to the utterances Github app, and install it on that repository.

  • utterances

    :crystal_ball: A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

  • // src/components/comments.js import React, { useEffect } from 'react'; const COMMENTS_ID = 'comments-container'; const Comments = () => { useEffect(() => { const script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://utteranc.es/client.js'; script.setAttribute('repo', 'emgoto/emgoto-comments'); script.setAttribute('issue-term', 'pathname'); script.setAttribute('theme', 'dark-blue'); script.setAttribute('crossorigin', 'anonymous'); script.async = true; const comments = document.getElementById(COMMENTS_ID); if (comments) comments.appendChild(script); // This function will get called when the component unmounts // To make sure we don't end up with multiple instances of the comments component return () => { const comments = document.getElementById(COMMENTS_ID); if (comments) comments.innerHTML = ''; }; }, []); return (

    ); }; export default Comments;

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • commento

    A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror)

  • If you don’t mind paying, it may be worth taking a look at other options like Commento or FastComments. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be anything on the market that lets you heavily customise the design to suit your needs. The closest may be Hyvor which does provide a wide variety of appearance settings. Their system starts at $5 a month for 100k monthly pageviews.

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