Gatsby starters: 30 free Gatsby templates for blazingly fast website building

Gatsby starters or pre-built Gatsby templates help you kickstart your Gatsby projects with a predefined structure, configuration, and some initial content. These starters can save you time and effort by providing a foundation for various websites or applications. You can customize and extend them to fit your specific needs.

Gatsby is a React-based, GraphQL-powered static site generator. With Gatsby starters, you can quickly build websites that use only static files for fast page loads, service workers, code splitting, server-side rendering, intelligent image loading, asset optimization, and data prefetching.

So, if you're looking to build Gatsby websites, here are 30 awesome Gatsby templates (by categories) to initiate a new Gatsby project.

To start Gatsby starters you need a set of tools installed at the working station:

To follow the step-by-step process there is an official Installation Guide.

The toolset is ready, so the only thing left to do is to choose the starter kit. Let’s start with the Blog starters showcase:

This Gatsby starter doesn’t have any UI limitations and only offers basic components for SEO/Links/Infinite Scrolling while creating a comfortable development environment to get started.

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Fully customizable Gatsby blog template that comes with syntax highlighting and built-in server-side rendering.

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Gatsby blog starter kit with responsive design.

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Minimal Gatsby blog starter with Glassmorphism UI.

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BCMS Gatsby Blog Starter is a full-pack code starter for functional Gatsby blog websites built with Gatsby.js, Tailwind, and BCMS.

One codebase for submitting blogs, listing and searching for them, and getting applications.

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One-page portfolio featuring Parallax effects and animations. Built with MDX and the Theme UI.

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Portfolio Minimal is a one-page portfolio Gatsby template with expressive design and slick animations.

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Simple one-page portfolio with GitHub projects showcase, about text, and contact form.

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Based on Ghost CMS, London is an image-centric portfolio with plenty of graphics to show off.

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BCMS Gatsby Personal Code Starter allows you to shape your brand or persona. Built with Gatsby, Tailwind, and BCMS.

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Gatsby Starter for Shopify projects; an online store with a custom landing page, detailed product pages, and a shopping cart.

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Minimalistic and simple starter for an E-commerce store.

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Gatsby and Snipcart integration resulted in a user-friendly, simple E-commerce site.

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E-commerce skeleton running on the headless and GraphQL.

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Ready-to-go E-commerce Starter built with Gatsby, Tailwind, and BCMS. All-in-one E-commerce features that are crucial for an online store.

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For this category was hard to find examples. Still, I found something worth sharing.

Even though it is not free, with Justcamp, you can create a variety of job-related websites using React and Gatsby. You can use it to build job listings, directories, portals, regular job websites, career platforms, resume directories, employment websites, freelancer hubs, candidate databases, and other similar projects.

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Gatsby Business Website Starter follows the Jamstack architecture by using Git as a single source of truth, and Netlify for continuous deployment, and CDN distribution.

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A fully functional job board with Gatsby.js, Tailwind, and BCMS. Whether you are looking to build a job board for your company or a stand-alone job board website - this starter is a great choice.

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It is not an official podcast starter but open-source code to the Code Chefs Podcast website that is free to peruse. Based on Gatsby-Hooks-Starter-Theme this repo allows a custom React Audio Library that controls playback speed, volume levels, and timestamps that can autoplay a fully responsive SasS library.

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An example of a podcast website built with Gatsby's default starter. This starter ships with the main Gatsby configuration files you might need to get up.

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Podcast Gatsby theme to create a site for your podcast. Write announcements, and store all episodes on your site.

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Podcast code starter kit that simplifies setting up, recording, and sharing your content. With BCMS podcast starter, you can manage the whole workflow from idea to recording and organize your episodes efficiently with notes and metadata. Say goodbye to manual updates and hello to a streamlined workflow for publishing audio content.

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A simple landing page starter built using Tailwinds. Suitable for any business.

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Gatsby's starter theme integrated with Airtable.

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A website starter built with Gatsby for a typical scientist's or laboratory website.

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A Gatsby starter with Leafet to quickly build React apps with a map. Ideal starter for the Gatsby mapping project.

Public repository for the Open AI Q&A project. A public collection of questions asked by authorized members and answers provided by the text-davinci-003 model - developed and maintained by the OpenAI organization.

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Gatsby starter that contains a documentation website starter that can optionally include a blog.

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Gatsby Conference Website Starter is your go-to solution for creating a conference center website.

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If you liked this list I made, in this part I will leave some most important links for Gatsby projects so you can search it or follow trends when it comes to the next Gatsby projects.