Gatsby Composer for Themes

What is this?

A yarn workspaces composed space for developing, running and testing your Gatsby themes.

Based on Composable yarn workspaces by @ChristopherBiscardi where you simply nest git repos that couldn’t care less about each other :), and we’ve added a demo theme runner!

Quick start

git clone git@github.com:demystifying-dev/gatsby-composer-for-themes.git my-dev-composer
cd my-dev-composer
yarn

Run demo on port 6209

yarn workspace demo develop -H 0.0.0.0 -p 6209

point browser at http://myserver.org:6209/

Docs and Examples

Docs and more examples coming, but the basic idea is:

• Learn
  • Check out atomic commits to see how basic things are done step by step
• Playground
  • Using built-in yarn workspace theme plus built in runner
• Project workflow
  • Fork or clone
  • Invoke app repo in sub-directory as composed (own repo without using submodules) runner, replace in package.json as runner instead of demo (docs coming soon)
  • Invoke one or more themes as composed (own repo without using submodules) under themes directory, register as yarn workspaces in package.json and configure them in gatsby-config.js, etc.

In this way we can have a project by project monorepo with dependencies handled by yarn workspaces, plus easily re-usable themes without having to make them npm packages (which I would like to avoid as a day-to-day workflow).