Enabling the community to easily write and release plugins for use with Gatsby is an absolute hammer of an idea. It gives Gatsby enthusiasts like myself a way to easily get started with open source by providing a solid foundation for us to build on. Then, once you’ve got the plugin basics down you can really let your imagination run wild. This is the story of how I combined my interest in markdown / MDX with the Gatsby plugin ecosystem to contribute a brand new open source plugin, `gatsby-mdx-embed`. And now I'm looking for #hacktoberfest contributions to help the project reach its first major milestone, a stable v1.0.0 release.

Recipes are designed to make life as a Gatsby developer even easier, and Khaled Garbaya shows exactly how much. He walks through setting up a Contentful blog with TailwindCSS before and after Gatsby Recipes -- taking us from seven steps to just one.

Gatsby blogs are a core part of the Gatsby ecosystem and now they're even easier to build out of the box. Introducing the new and improved Blog Theme version 2.0.