@lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara

@lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara

Playful and Colorful One-Page portfolio featuring Parallax effects and animations. Especially designers and/or photographers will love this theme! Built with MDX and Theme UI.

Read the Source Code.

Also be sure to check out other Free & Open Source Gatsby Themes and my Personal Website.

Features

• Theme UI-based theming
• react-spring parallax effect
• CSS Animations on Shapes
• Light/Dark mode

Installation

npm install @lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara

Install as a starter

This will generate a new site that pre-configures the theme including example content and additional plugins.

npx gatsby new gatsby-starter-portfolio-cara https://github.com/LekoArts/gatsby-starter-portfolio-cara

View the starter's code

Usage

Theme options

Key	Default Value	Description
basePath	/	Root url for the theme
mdx	true	Configure gatsby-plugin-mdx (if your website already is using the plugin pass false to turn this off)

Example usage

// gatsby-config.mjs
const config = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `@lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara`,
      options: {
        // basePath defaults to `/`
        basePath: `/sideproject`,
      },
    },
  ],
};

export default config;

Additional configuration

In addition to the theme options, there are a handful of items you can customize via the siteMetadata object in your site's gatsby-config.mjs

// gatsby-config.mjs
const config = {
  siteMetadata: {
    // Used for the title template on pages other than the index site
    siteTitle: `Cara`,
    // Default title of the page
    siteTitleAlt: `Cara - @lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara`,
    // Can be used for e.g. JSONLD
    siteHeadline: `Cara - Gatsby Theme from @lekoarts`,
    // Will be used to generate absolute URLs for og:image etc.
    siteUrl: `https://cara.lekoarts.de`,
    // Used for SEO
    siteDescription: `Playful and Colorful One-Page portfolio featuring Parallax effects and animations`,
    // Used for og:image and must be placed inside the `static` folder
    siteImage: `/banner.jpg`,
    // Set the default "lang" attribute on "html" element
    siteLanguage: `en`,
    // Twitter Handle
    author: `@lekoarts_de`,
  },
};

export default config;

Shadowing

Please read the guide Shadowing in Gatsby Themes to understand how to customize the theme! Generally speaking you will want to place your files into src/@lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara/ to shadow/override files. The Theme UI config can be configured by shadowing its files in src/gatsby-plugin-theme-ui/.

Editing the content

The content of the page is managed by .mdx files inside the theme's sections folder. You can edit the files by shadowing them in your site.

These files are available: intro.mdx, projects.mdx, about.mdx, contact.mdx

See the example that shadows via src/@lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara/sections/intro.mdx:

# Hi, I'm Jane Doe

I'm creating noice web experiences for the next generation of consumer-facing companies

The other headings should be <h2> headings!

You also have access to the <ProjectCard /> component/shortcode which is used in the projects.mdx section. The component takes the props title (string), link (string), bg (string) and children (React.ReactNode). You would use it like that:

## Projects

<ProjectCard title="Freiheit" link="https://www.behance.net/gallery/58937147/Freiheit" bg="linear-gradient(to right, #D4145A 0%, #FBB03B 100%)">
This project is my entry to Adobe's #ChallengeYourPerspective contest.
</ProjectCard>

Changelog

You can find the extensive changelog of changes on GitHub. You'll be able to see each patch, minor, and major changes and what pull requests contributed to them.

Questions?

If you have general questions or need help with Gatsby, please go to one of the support platforms mentioned in Gatsby's documentation. If you have a specific question about this theme, you can head to the GitHub Discussions of the repository.

🌟 Supporting me

Thanks for using this project! I'm always interested in seeing what people do with my projects, so don't hesitate to tag me on Bluesky and share the project with me.

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