Eric Howey • January 12, 2020

Understanding latent component shadowing in Gatsby themes

As I worked on building themes for Gatsby I went through a number of different iterations trying to find an approach that would allow for easy composition and clear separation of concerns. The lightbulb went off for me when I read John Otander’s blog post on the topic of latent component shadowing…

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Eric Howey • January 08, 2020

How to display alternate content in dark mode using Theme-UI

Theme-UI provides a great pattern for implementing dark mode on your Gatsby website. If your site is primarily text, this can be as straightforward as changing a few colors in your theme and off you go. Most websites are not so minimal and include images, icons, background patterns, etc. If you…

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Eric Howey • January 01, 2020

Introduction to Gatsby Theme Catalyst

Gatsby Theme Catalyst is my opinionated view of a modern tech stack relying on a combination of Gatsby , MDX , and Theme-UI . I built this series of themes to accelerate the development process and have a modular approach for my freelance work. As a side benefit building this project has been a…

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