New pages with markdown

[KanoczTomas]

It would be nice to have all new pages created with markdown only. The blog works that way. Is it possible to set up the system so by adding a 'gallery.md' file (just an example) a subpage Gallery would appear on the navigation bar and the page would be automatically added to the webpage page structure?

[crazko]

It's possible but not viable as such no generic pages will most likely have more complex structure, with more components inside. What's your intentions?

[KanoczTomas]

Intention is to make creation of pages as easy as possible for a non technical person. Does CMS allow this?

[crazko]

Aa far as a page would consists only of text and images like a blog post it may be possible.

But is it worth the work? Do you expect many pages to be created? I'd rather wait for the time when it would be apparent that we need it.

[michaltakac]

Proposing:

• Short term - leave as is, pages would be created for a specific reason and done mostly by "technical person", not worth the work,
• Long term - investigate MDX for this purpose.

[crazko]

Similar discussion was held for a while in gatsbyjs/gatsby#312 and a recently a solution working with gatsby v2 appeared - gatsby-mdx.