Recipes: Working with Starters

Starters are boilerplate Gatsby sites maintained officially, or by the community.

Using a starter

Prerequisites

• The Gatsby CLI installed

Directions

1. Find the starter you’d like to use. (The Starter Library is a good place to look!)

2. Generate a new site based on the starter. In the terminal, run:

Don’t run the above command as-is — remember to replace {your-project-name} and {link-to-starter}!

3. Run your new site:

Additional resources

• Follow a more detailed guide on using Gatsby starters.
• Learn how to use the Gatsby CLI tool to use starters in tutorial part one
• Browse the Starter Library
• Check out Gatsby’s official default starter