A Web Developer's Guide to Making Your First Personal Website and Blog

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  • gatsby-starter-blog

    Gatsby starter for creating a blog

  • gatsby new my-tutorial-site https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog

  • Puts Debuggerer

    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

  • Your preferred flavour of version control and an account with a repo hosting service (I'll be using git and GitHub)

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  • my-tutorial-site

    Demo for a personal website tutorial series using Gatsby.

  • On the new repo creation form I like to match the repository name to the name of the project folder on my local drive. You can choose to make the repo private or public, that's up to your personal choice, and it won't affect your ability to follow along with the rest of this guide. I prefer to keep my personal website closed-source, but I'll leave this example project open-source so that anyone can have a look at the code. Leave the rest of the options unchecked and press the 'Create repository' button.

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • A modern code editor (I love VS Code)

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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