An opinionated set of integrated themes and starters to accelerateyour next Gatsby project. Build faster.
11 themes
8 starters
How It Works
Themes
Layout Themes
Minimal styles, defaults, layout and utility components
Data Theme
Optional, adds a backend data source or just use MDX
Presentation Theme
Visual design, custom layouts and UI components
Gatsby Starter
Packages a set themes together for ease of use.
Production Site
Add branding, content, styles, and customization. Component shadowing and Theme UI give you full control over the finished product.
Demo
Tech Choices
MDX
MDX lets you seamlessly write JSX in your Markdown documents. It is the default content authoring format in Gatsby Theme Catalyst.
SANITY
SANITY.io is used as an optional backend adding an extendable and powerful headless CMS and database solution at your fingertips
Theme-UI
Theme UI is used for styling enabling a consistent visual design language through a global context aware theme file
Framer Motion
Framer Motion is used as the default animation library due to the intuitive API and excellent documentation.
Stripe
Stripe is used with use-shopping-cart to provide basic e-commerce integration for when you just need to make some money! Coming soon ™.
Cypress
Cypress.io provides end-to-end testing integration for the themes and starters so you can trust every deploy!
Why?
Because I needed a way to speed up my freelance developer workflow and open source is empowering!
catalyst: an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action