gatsby-theme-apollo-core

This is the base theme for building Apollo-branded Gatsby sites. It contains a small amount of configuration, and a handful of components that make it easy to build consistent-looking UIs.

It comes with a few Gatsby plugins:

gatsby-plugin-svgr enables importing SVGs as React components
gatsby-plugin-emotion server renders your Emotion styles
gatsby-plugin-react-helmet server renders <head> tags set with React Helmet
gatsby-plugin-typography provides a stylesheet reset and sets default styles for basic HTML elements
Installation
Configuration
Components and utilities
Deploying to a subdirectory
Examples
License

Installation

$ npm install gatsby gatsby-theme-apollo-core

Configuration

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  plugins: ['gatsby-theme-apollo-core'],
  siteMetadata: {
    title: 'Apollo rocks!',
    description: 'Gatsby themes are pretty cool too...'
  }
};

Components and utilities

All of the React components and utilities documented here are available as named exports in the gatsby-theme-apollo-core package. You can import them like this:

import {MenuButton, Sidebar, breakpoints} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-core';

`Layout`

Layout should wrap every page that gets created. It configures React Helmet and sets the meta description tag with data from the siteMetadata property in your Gatsby config.

import {Layout} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-core';

function MyPage() {
  return (
    <Layout>
      Hello world
    </Layout>
  );
}

Prop name	Type	Required
children	node	yes

`Sidebar`

A component that renders a sidebar with a LogoTitle component in the top left corner. It can also be configured to collapse into the left side of the page on narrow windows.

import {Layout, Sidebar} from 'gatbsy-theme-apollo';

function MyPage() {
  return (
    <Layout>
      <Sidebar>
        Sidebar content goes here
      </Sidebar>
    </Layout>
  );
}

Prop name	Type	Required	Description
children	node	yes
responsive	bool	no	If `true`, the sidebar will behave as a drawer absolutely positioned on the left
open	bool	no	Controls the sidebar visibility when the `responsive` prop is `true`
logoLink	string	no	The URL/path that the sidebar logo should link to

`SidebarNav`

A configurable two-tiered, expandable/collapsible navigation component for use in conjunction with the Sidebar component above. It accepts a contents prop that defines what links and collapsible sections get rendered. Here's an example of the expected shape of a contents prop:

const contents = [
  {
    title: 'Getting started',
    path: '/'
  },
  {
    title: 'External link',
    path: 'https://apollographql.com',
    anchor: true
  },
  {
    title: 'Advanced features',
    pages: [
      {
        title: 'Schema stitching',
        path: '/advanced/schema-stitching'
      }
    ]
  }
];

Each element in the array can have title, path, pages, and anchor props. pages is an array of more elements with the same shape. By default, a Gatsby Link component will be used to render the links, but you can use a regular HTML anchor tag (<a>) by passing the anchor property to true on any page object.

The SidebarNav component gives the currently selected page an "active" style, and if it's a subpage, it will keep the currently active section expanded. To facilitate this, you must pass the current path to the pathname prop. Luckily, Gatsby exposes this in the location prop that gets passed automatically to every page!

import {Layout, Sidebar, SidebarNav} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-core';

function MyPage(props) {
  return (
    <Layout>
      <Sidebar>
        <SidebarNav
          contents={contents}
          pathname={props.location.pathname}
        />
      </Sidebar>
    </Layout>
  );
}

Prop name	Type	Required	Description
contents	array	yes	An array of items to render
pathname	string	yes	The current path (`props.location.pathname` expected)
alwaysExpanded	bool	no	If `true`, all collapsible sections are expanded and cannot close

`ResponsiveSidebar`

A render props component that manages the state for responsive sidebars. On mobile devices, the sidebar is opened by a MenuButton component, and dismissed when the user clicks away from the sidebar. This component's children prop accepts a function that provides values and functions to enable this behavior easily.

import {
  Layout,
  Sidebar,
  ResponsiveSidebar,
  FlexWrapper,
  MenuButton
} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-core';

function MyPage() {
  return (
    <Layout>
      <ResponsiveSidebar>
        {({sidebarOpen, openSidebar, onWrapperClick, sidebarRef}) => (
          <FlexWrapper onClick={onWrapperClick}>
            <Sidebar responsive open={sidebarOpen} ref={sidebarRef}>
              This is a sidebar
            </Sidebar>
            <MenuButton onClick={openSidebar} />
          </FlexWrapper>
        )}
      </ResponsiveSidebar>
    </Layout>
  );
}

Prop name	Type	Required	Description
children	func	yes	A render prop-style function that returns a React component

`Logo`

A component that renders the Apollo logo. This logo can be removed or replaced using component shadowing.

import {Logo} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-core';

function MyPage() {
  return <Logo />;
}

Customizing the logo

Through component shadowing, you can override the logo that gets shown. Simply create a file that exports a SVG React component in your theme consumer at src/gatsby-theme-apollo-core/components/logo.js.

// src/gatsby-theme-apollo-core/components/logo.js
export {ReactComponent as default} from '../../assets/custom-logo.svg';

Check out this CodeSandbox link for a full component shadowing example.

Prop name	Type	Required	Description
noLogo	bool	no	If `true`, the Apollo logo is hidden

Colors

An object mapping semantic names to hex strings. All of these colors are drawn from Space Kit. You can use this utility to write CSS-in-JS rules like this:

import {colors} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-core';

const StyledButton = styled.button({
  color: colors.primary,
  background: colors.background
});

Customizing colors

You can override the default color palette using shadowing. The only constraint is that the primary and secondary palette keys must be colors from Space Kit. Here's an example of a shadowed color palette:

// src/gatsby-theme-apollo-core/utils/colors.js
const {colors} = require('gatsby-theme-apollo-core/src/utils/colors');
const {colors: spaceKitColors} = require('@apollo/space-kit/colors');

exports.colors = {
  ...colors,
  primary: spaceKitColors.red.base,
  divider: '#aeaeae'
};

You can refer to the default colors file for palette keys that can be customized.

Breakpoints

A mapping of size keys to media queries. This is useful for writing responsive CSS-in-JS components.

import {breakpoints} from 'gatsby-theme-apollo-core';

const StyledMenu = styled.nav({
  fontSize: 24,
  [breakpoints.lg]: {
    fontSize: 20
  },
  [breakpoints.md]: {
    fontSize: 16
  },
  [breakpoints.sm]: {
    fontSize: 12
  }
})

Key	Value
sm	@media (max-width: 600px)
md	@media (max-width: 850px)
lg	@media (max-width: 1120px)

Deploying to a subdirectory

In order to deploy a Gatsby site to a subdirectory, there are a few extra steps to take. First, you must provide a pathPrefix property in your Gatsby config. This option combined with the --prefix-paths option in the Gatsby CLI will handle most of the hard work. Read more about path prefixing in Gatsby here.

// gatsby-config.js
module.exports = {
  ...
  pathPrefix: '/YOUR_PATH_PREFIX'
};

Now, when you run npx gatsby bulid --prefix-paths, all pages, references to static assets, and links between pages will be prefixed with your custom path. That means that if you made a page with the path /about, it will live at /YOUR_PATH_PREFIX/about. In order for this to work within our server configuration, your website files also must exist in a directory with the same name. Here's how this sequence of events would look if you ran commands in your terminal:

$ npx gatsby build --prefix-paths
$ mkdir -p YOUR_PATH_PREFIX
$ mv public/* YOUR_PATH_PREFIX
$ mv YOUR_PATH_PREFIX public/

We use Netlify to deploy our websites, so to express this slightly more complicated build process to them, create a netlify.toml file that follows this pattern:

# netlify.toml
[build]
  base = "/"
  publish = "public/"
  command = "gatsby build --prefix-paths && mkdir -p YOUR_PATH_PREFIX && mv public/* YOUR_PATH_PREFIX && mv YOUR_PATH_PREFIX public/"

We use Netlify redirects to manage our server rewrites and redirects. To point your new Netlify deployment to a page on apollographql.com, add a rule to our website router _redirects file. It should look something like this:

/YOUR_PATH_PREFIX/* YOUR_NETLIFY_URL/YOUR_PATH_PREFIX/:splat 200!

Examples

Principled GraphQL

License

MIT

gatsby-theme-apollo-core

gatsby-theme-apollo-core

Installation

Configuration

Components and utilities

`Layout`

`Sidebar`

`SidebarNav`

`ResponsiveSidebar`

`Logo`

Customizing the logo

Colors

Customizing colors

Breakpoints

Deploying to a subdirectory

Examples

License

Readme

Keywords

Package Sidebar

Install

Repository

Homepage

Weekly Downloads

Version

License

Unpacked Size

Total Files

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Collaborators

gatsby-theme-apollo-core

gatsby-theme-apollo-core

Installation

Configuration

Components and utilities

Layout

Sidebar

SidebarNav

ResponsiveSidebar

Logo

Customizing the logo

Colors

Customizing colors

Breakpoints

Deploying to a subdirectory

Examples

License

Readme

Keywords

Package Sidebar

Install

Repository

Homepage

DownloadsWeekly Downloads

Version

License

Unpacked Size

Total Files

Last publish

Collaborators

`Layout`

`Sidebar`

`SidebarNav`

`ResponsiveSidebar`

`Logo`

Weekly Downloads