Gatsby-theme-novela: [Feature request] Code blocks, Tags, and Author's page

[jletey]

I have quite a few new features that I would love to have added!

1. Language titles: Like Gatsby does on their site, I want to be able to have a banner to display the current language of the code block
2. Copy: Again, like Gatsby does on their site, I want to be able to copy the code in a code block with a click of a button!

For the above two points you can refer to this Gatsby PR: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/15834

1. Tags: Would love to have tags for posts and tag pages
2. Author pages: Would love to have a link to an author page (e.g. https://example.com/author/john-doe) with all of their posts authored by them

Thanks again for starting work on multiple author support @brotzky!

[jletey]

And also:

1. Code titles: Titles for code blocks (like Gatsby on their site)

[brotzky]

Thanks for the ideas, John. (btw, working towards co-authoring right now)

1, 2 & 5. This is possible and something that would be nice with code blocks.

3 & 4. Tags/Categories & Author pages. As people use the theme and it matures it'll be a good idea to add it in. Will add it to the roadmap. I'm not sure we'll be able to get to immediately.

[jletey]

@brotzky Copy doesn't look very good on mobile:

[alfieqashwa]

@johnletey
I already modified on https://story.alfieqashwa.me/testing
here in https://github.com/alfieqashwa/alfieqashwa.me/blob/master/src/%40narative/gatsby-theme-novela/components/Code/Code.Prism.tsx

I don't know yet how to contribute in github. sorry

[jletey]

@alfieqashwa By modified, do you mean that you fixed the mobile copy button appearance?

[brotzky]

Yikes, will update. Moving fast right now.

Also, don't sweat about not knowing how to contribute to Github. Thanks for helping out through reporting issues and requesting features.

[alfieqashwa]

@johnletey no, not ye. I just added the Language Title.

[jletey]

I see @alfieqashwa ... let's see what @brotzky thinks about the design and whatnot

[brotzky]

Wont be adding Language titles. This can be done through shadowing in the future.

Fixing mobile "copy" bug.

[jletey]

Wont be adding Language tags. This can be done through shadowing in the future.

1. Will you be adding the code titles?
2. Is there a way that I can "import" the package code instead of completely overriding everything, so that I don't become so outdated with the package?

Fixing mobile alignment bug.

Wonderful!

[brotzky]

v0.0.9 removes the copy button on mobile.

the default theme for code blocks we want to keep more minimal like those found on https://overreacted.io or http://kentcdodds.com

code titles will not be added by default to the code blocks (html, jsx, js, etc)

[jletey]

Understand ... thanks for working on this @brotzky!

[tcostaco]

I'll be working on author's page very soon. We'll keep you posted, @johnletey!

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone!

[jletey]

awesome ... thank you so much @tcostaco!

[brotzky]

I've created a new issue just for Authors.

If you have any more suggestions please open a new issue.

[chakrihacker]

Hey, I would like to help on tags/categories. Also I feel adding code title should be fine. what do you think??

[brotzky]

Hey, that's awesome!

Off the top of my head we'd need

• Updated design with tags/categories visible (done by our team)
• New pages that shows a list of specific tags/categories of articles selected
• New Frontmatter with tags/categories and createPages including that logic

Code title might be a good idea. Still on the fence about it.