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Setup MDX pages within Gatsby

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Setup MDX pages within Gatsby

MDX is markdown for the component era.

Write markdown with embedded React components. Awesome 🤯

This recipe installs and configures all the necessary NPM packages & Gatsby Plugins to enable auto-creation of MDX pages within src/pages.

This recipe:


Installs NPM Packages.

<NPMPackage name="gatsby-source-filesystem" /> <NPMPackage name="gatsby-plugin-mdx" /> <NPMPackage name="@mdx-js/mdx" /> <NPMPackage name="@mdx-js/react" />


Adds gatsby-source-filesystem to read the MDX files in the src/pages directory.

<GatsbyPlugin name="gatsby-source-filesystem" key="src/pages" options={{ name: MDXPages, path: src/pages/, }} />


Adds gatsby-plugin-mdx to convert MDX files to pages.

<GatsbyPlugin name="gatsby-plugin-mdx" />

Adds an example MDX page for you to play with.

<File path="src/pages/test-mdx.mdx" content="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/KyleAMathews/70103d56afb44f1a56f01d68962e8a77/raw/1c6e08d1fc18644d31681d06ed568369d50f6cb4/test-page.mdx" />


Once you've installed this recipe, you can start writing MDX pages on your Gatsby site.

Once this recipe is installed, try editing the test-mdx.mdx file as well as adding your own file.

Read more about MDX at https://mdxjs.com/.