Midway

Named for the sake of being the middle component missing from your ecom business. Think of this repo as a middlewear to anything and everything custom, ecom, DTC and headless.

Starter kit for Gatsby, Sanity.io, & Shopify

This repo was forked from the work that Lucas did on an initial Sanity/Gatsby/Shopify repo. I've extended it to include various patterns that I use in my builds, more functions for handling accounts, typescript, and functional CSS to name a few. I also incldue some common components in my Sanity & Gatsby instance that I don't believe we should rebuild over and over, things like a press module, general ctas etc. Use whatever you'd like or just use it as a baseplate.

Clone this repository to bootstrap a fresh Gatsby site, powered by Sanity CMS and dynamically import Shopify products to Sanity with the help of a WebHook

Basic Instructions

Initial Setup

1. Remove remote repo by entering rm -rf .git
2. Either create a new repo in this folder and version control both Sanity & Gatsby, or set up new repos for both folders

Studio/

1. In the studio folder run sanity init and create a new project.
2. Update studio/sanity.json and update the Project ID.
3. Update the studio name in studio/package.json.
4. Edit schemas, add different content types, find out more here: Sanity Docs
5. Include these schemas in the deskStructure.js export (include a fun icon!)

Web/

1. Rename env.example to .env by typing mv env.example .env in your terminal.
2. Enter your Sanity API keys in the .env file.
3. Modify gatsby-config.js and add your site title, etc.
4. Develop your front end, etc. (purposely left this ultra stripped-down)
5. Create a repo specifically for your Gatsby build, host with Netlify or anywhere you can have a Lambda function.

Shopify

1. In your Netlify environment, go to your project and create a new Function.
2. Set the functions directory to be the functions/ folder in your project.
3. In Shopify, go to Settings -> Notifications -> Webhooks and create webhooks for Product Creation, Updates, & Deletions (⚠️ Be careful with how you implement this, see more here). Set the webhook's Callback URL to [https://YOUR_URL.DOMAIN/.netlify/functions/shopify] (if using Netlify, otherwise point to your provider's Lambda location)

Local Development of Functions

You can alternatively run your webhook locally, you can do this with ngrok 1. npm install ngrok -g 2. ngrok [:PORT] http 3. Point Shopify webhook to the above url + /.netlify/functions/shopify

Features

A blank slate Gatsby site w custom webhook to create new Shopify products

• 📡 Real-time content preview in development
• ⏱ Fast & frugal builds
• 🗃 No accidental missing fields/types
• 🧰 Full Render Control with Portable Text
• 📸 gatsby-image support
• 🔧 Minimal configuration
• 💻 Custom lambda function that will create/update products from Shopify, as well as flag deleted items

Sanity Studio with a schema for

• 🖼️ Media Plugin
• 👨‍💻 Vision Plugin
• 🚀 Graphql Deployment Support
• 🏢 Site settings
  • Menu configuration pattern
  • Basic Footer configuration pattner
• 📃 Pages
  • Meta Card support for SEO with Tabs
  • Common modularity patterns
• 📰 Posts
• 🛍 Products & Variants
  • Products have default settings for title, slug, defaultPrice, id, productId.
  • Variants have default settings for id, productId, variantId, title, variantTitle, sku, and price.
  • The web/functions/shopify file will generate new Sanity documents with these default fields.

Orginal Credits from Lucas

This entire repo is really just merged together from a stripped-down version of Sanity's Sample company website built with Gatsby & Sanity.io repo and a modified version of Kevin Green's lambda function as discussed in the Sanity + Shopify Roundtable: Headless ecommerce with Kevin Green & Joseph Thomas video.

License

MIT