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Literary designs and phone cases displayed through GatsbyJS and Netlify CMS.
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2019-02-03
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2019-05-26
About daltonrowe/literary-phone-cases
Literary Phone Cases is a Gatsby-based website showcasing custom phone case designs with literary themes. The project serves as both a portfolio site and a learning experiment combining modern web technologies including GraphQL, React, and static site generation. Built with Netlify CMS for content management, the site demonstrates practical implementations of dynamic content handling for an e-commerce or product display use case.
The project highlights several technical achievements, particularly the integration of gatsby-image for lazy-loading image optimization, which the creator found remarkably straightforward. The site also incorporates Netlify Forms for contact submissions and explores Netlify CMS's admin capabilities. The tech stack includes Netlify for deployment, making the entire workflow streamlined from development to production.
The repository is positioned as an educational project where the creator worked through implementations the hard way to deepen understanding of Gatsby fundamentals, special files, and the Netlify ecosystem. Future planned improvements include design refinements, search and filter functionality, CSS modularization, and better attribution of referenced projects. This makes it a useful reference for developers learning Gatsby, headless CMS integration, and static site deployment practices.