Ensure you have the following installed locally:

• NodeJS: https://nodejs.org/en/download/
  • We are currently using the LTS version 12.19.0.
  • We use npm as a package manager. If you prefer yarn feel free to try it. YMMV.

BodilessJS provides a Gatsby starter you can use as the basis of a new site. Currently, you must install it from the main repository as follows:

git clone https://github.com/johnsonandjohnson/bodiless-js.git
cd bodiless-js
npm run ci
npm run new /path/to/new/site

Recommend path for the new site is outside the bodiless-js repo. i.e. ../mysite.

This will copy the starter to the specified location (which defaults to ~/gatsby-starter-bodiless), initialize a new git repository, and install all dependencies.

Note: Official Gatsby Stater (installable via gatsby new) is coming soon!

You can then launch the editor:

cd /path/to/new/site
npm start

And view the site at http://localhost:8000. Click the "docs" button (in the upper left corner) to view all documentation, or just visit http://localhost:8000/___docs](http://localhost:8000/___docs).

To build and serve the production version of the site:

npm run build
npm run serve

Visit http://localhost:9000/ in your browser to view the site.

As part of the installation process, you may want to configure specific environment variables for the site. You may do so by adding or updating .env.site file in the root folder of the site. This file allows us to overwrite env variables defined in @bodiless packages and/or add new env variables. The variables within the system are provided with the majority commented out and not actively being used.

Many of the plugins have a dependency to know the absolute url. This can be set once with SITE_URL. This URL is used by Canonical & Sitemap.xml plugins.

This can be done by replacing the favicon.png in src/images/. It uses gatsby-plugin-manifest to generate a set of favicons for your site to use. For more information on options, please read the documentation for gatsby-plugin-manifest.

If desired, this can be overridden by specifying custom options within the site's gatsby-config.js.

Start your site with:

npm start

and view the site at http://localhost:8000.

Click the Edit icon in toolbar.

Click on the image and you will see context menu that lets you set the image and alt text for your logo.

For further details we highly recommend visiting the built in documentation:

Click the Docs icon in toolbar or visit [(http://localhost:8000/___docs/#/Development/Guides/BuildingSites/) to read more in-depth on how to start building a site.

Then continue on in Edit mode and start adding menu items, new pages, adding content & update footer and start building your site.

Click the Docs icon in toolbar or visit [(http://localhost:8000/___docs/#/Development/ContentEditor/) and read more in-depth of using the editor to build your site.