# chat
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08/18/2020, 2:21 AMI just want to write my notes haha, not programming everytime i wirte a note. - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:21 AMThere is a plugin called gatsby-theme-andy that people use to do this. - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:21 AMHmm what does
actually does?gastby - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:21 AMGatsby have a thing that makes an entire website from your .md files. - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:21 AMohh - u
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08/18/2020, 2:22 AMGatsby is like a tool to make websites very fast with command lines and a little of programming. - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:22 AMBut to understand what you're doing you need, at least, to know something about Javascript. - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:23 AMDendron uses Jekyll, that makes the same thing. - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:24 AM> Gatsby is like a tool to make websites very fast with command lines and a little of programming. @User How? With built-in environment? - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:24 AMThey have a CLI that runs on NodeJS. - u
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08/18/2020, 2:24 AMYou make you website in seconds. - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:25 AMI just started learning HTML and CSS from a week ago, plan to learn JS after this - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:25 AMso NodeJS is based on JS? - u
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08/18/2020, 2:25 AMJS is very powerful, but it have so many faces that sometimes it is confusing. - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:25 AMYes. - u
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08/18/2020, 2:26 AMBasically JS is a language that makes a website responsible. Clicking things, tips on mouse hover etc. - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:27 AMSo what we do is make a
?Gastby site - u
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08/18/2020, 2:28 AMImagine this like a tool. - u
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08/18/2020, 2:28 AMA tool for coding less. - u
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08/18/2020, 2:28 AMMaking a site without writing every page of html and css and this thing. - u
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08/18/2020, 2:28 AMYou will just use tools (called plugins) to run in your gatsby site. Most of the work is automatically. - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:29 AMsounds cool! - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:29 AMLike, there is a tool to make markdown files to show as webpages. - u
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08/18/2020, 2:29 AMThere is another tool to make your site looks cool (themes). - u
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08/18/2020, 2:30 AMYou just install the plugins, and to install these plugins you need a little bit of knowledge on JS syntax. - u
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08/18/2020, 2:31 AMThe gastsby CLI (command line interpreter) makes it all for you. All you need is to customize somethings... - u
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08/18/2020, 2:31 AMThere is a tool to embed things when parsing the markdown files to webpages. - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:32 AMLike, what if you want to embed a youtube video on you markdown. You can't. - u
user
08/18/2020, 2:32 AMBut there is a plugin that reads your MD file and make the html code automatically. - i
imalightbulb
08/18/2020, 2:32 AMHmm saw a tutorial of making static websites with gastby should I learn Gastby after JS? OR I can learn JS by working on Gastby? 😆