Start your blog?

Everything we do should start with the question why before how.

This is the why

I have been reading other peoples' blogs for a long time. The thought of having one from my own was always at the back of my head. But I wasn't finding a good reason to do so.

Finally I could figure out the reasons:

• Writing helps you think. It forces you to focus on one particular thing.
• I wanted to keep track of things I learn and experience.
• And share those with others; hoping that would benefit them.

And this is how

I had prior experience working with ReactJs and GatsbyJs. I wanted to explore VueJs and therefore found out about Gridsome.

The steps forward are simple. [assuming you have node(v12) and npm(v6) installed]

1. Install Gridsome

npm install --global @gridsome/cli

2. Start the project with the gridsome blog starter

gridsome create my-blog https://github.com/gridsome/gridsome-starter-blog.git
cd my-blog
gridsome develop # to start local dev server at `http://localhost:8080`

And you are all set 🎉

Psst, It took more time to write this up than setting up the website.