# LekoArts/gatsby-starter-portfolio-cara

Playful and Colorful One-Page portfolio featuring Parallax effects and animations. Especially designers and/or photographers will love this theme! Built with MDX and Theme UI.

Repository: https://github.com/LekoArts/gatsby-starter-portfolio-cara
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gatsby-starter-portfolio-cara
Homepage: https://cara.lekoarts.de
Language: TypeScript
License: 0BSD
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, gatsby, gatsbyjs, gatsby-starter, designer, photographer, one-page, react-spring, parallax, theme-ui, mdx, lekoarts-oss
Last push: 2025-06-26T07:47:33+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 45/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 28, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3014, "days_push": 433, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1443, forks 371 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:44.809132+00:00)

## What it is
A Gatsby starter template for a playful, colorful one-page portfolio site with parallax effects and animations, built on the @lekoarts/gatsby-theme-cara theme using MDX and Theme UI. It is aimed especially at designers and photographers who want a quick, customizable personal site.

## Use cases
- create a one-page portfolio website
- build a personal site as a designer or photographer
- showcase projects with parallax animations
- quickly deploy a Gatsby site to Netlify
- customize a Gatsby theme via MDX and Theme UI

## When to choose
- you want a ready-made, visually playful one-page portfolio on Gatsby
- you are a designer or photographer needing a site with minimal setup
- you want to learn or leverage Gatsby themes, MDX, and Theme UI

## When to avoid
- you need a multi-page site or blog with complex content structure
- you don't use React/Gatsby or want a framework-agnostic static site
- you need a highly custom design from scratch rather than a themed starter

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: static-site-generator, animation, templating, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: gatsby, gatsby-starter, gatsby-theme, mdx, theme-ui, react-spring, parallax, one-page, designer-portfolio, photographer-portfolio, boilerplate, portfolio, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- LekoArts/gatsby-starter-portfolio-cara (main) score 45

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:44.809132+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:32:59.559165+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/LekoArts/gatsby-starter-portfolio-cara (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:44.809132+00:00, sha 0078fb1e6158)
  - homepage: https://cara.lekoarts.de (fetched 2026-08-29T11:46:43.056452+00:00, sha cfa4492f5891)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.