Gatsby's Airtable starter

This project uses Gatsby and the Airtable API to create a dynamic website that displays data stored in an Airtable database. The application connects to Airtable via a Personal Acces Token (pat) and uses GraphQL to retrieve and display the data on the page.

The project includes a home page that displays a list of records from the database, and a detail page to show detailed information for each record.

This project is a good option for those who want to create a dynamic website that quickly and easily displays Airtable data. I hope you enjoy using it!

To make a request to Airtable use this curl

 curl https://api.airtable.com/v0/appfKQVIhN77yudQ5/Table%201 \
-H "Authorization: Bearer apikey"

This will only work for a specific airtable database

Have another more specific idea? Send me a email at christian_nogueras94@hotmail.com

Requirements

To make this project work properly, you need to include an environment file (.env). This file should be located in the root of the project and should contain your Airtable API key, which will be used to connect to the database.

To create the .env file, simply create a new file in the root of the project with the name .env and add your Airtable API key like this:

API_KEY=my-api-key

Make sure to keep the .env file secret and do not include it in your version control. This way, you can use this project without worrying about sharing your API keys with others.

This project uses the dotenv package to load the environment variables from the .env file. To use it, you need to install dotenv as a dependency of your project:

npm install dotenv

Then, in your Gatsby configuration file (usually gatsby-config.js), you can import the dotenv module and call the config() function to load the environment variables from the .env file:

require("dotenv").config()

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-some-api`,
      options: {
        apiKey: process.env.API_KEY,
      },
    },
  ],
}

I hope this helps you understand how to use the .env file and the dotenv package in this project. If you have any questions or need more information, please don't hesitate to ask. Good luck with your project!

🧐 What's inside?

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.
├── node_modules
├── src
├── .gitignore
├── gatsby-browser.js
├── gatsby-config.js
├── gatsby-node.js
├── gatsby-ssr.js
├── LICENSE
├── package.json
└── README.md

1. /node_modules: This directory contains all of the modules of code that your project depends on (npm packages) are automatically installed.

2. /src: This directory will contain all of the code related to what you will see on the front-end of your site (what you see in the browser) such as your site header or a page template. src is a convention for “source code”.

3. .gitignore: This file tells git which files it should not track / not maintain a version history for.

4. gatsby-browser.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby browser APIs (if any). These allow customization/extension of default Gatsby settings affecting the browser.

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7. gatsby-ssr.js: This file is where Gatsby expects to find any usage of the Gatsby server-side rendering APIs (if any). These allow customization of default Gatsby settings affecting server-side rendering.

8. LICENSE: This Gatsby starter is licensed under the 0BSD license. This means that you can see this file as a placeholder and replace it with your own license.

9. package.json: A manifest file for Node.js projects, which includes things like metadata (the project’s name, author, etc). This manifest is how npm knows which packages to install for your project.

10. README.md: A text file containing useful reference information about your project.

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