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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

Overview of this book

Gatsby is a powerful React static site generator that enables you to create lightning-fast web experiences. With the latest version of Gatsby, you can combine your static content with server-side rendered and deferred static content to create a fully rounded application. Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby provides a comprehensive introduction for anyone new to GatsbyJS and will help you get up to speed in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide starts by teaching you the core concepts of GatsbyJS. You'll then discover how to build performant, accessible, and scalable websites with the GatsbyJS framework. Once you've worked through the practical projects in the book, you'll be able to build anything from a personal website to large-scale applications with authentication and make your site rise through those SEO rankings. By the end of this Gatsby development book, you'll be well-versed in every aspect of the tool's performance and accessibility and have learned how to build client websites that your users will love.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started
7
Part 2: Going Live
12
Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Introducing website analytics

Website analytics is the act of collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and reporting a website's data. Let's break website analytics down into two categories:

  • Page analytics: Analytics we gather about how users interact with our website. This could be page views, click rates, or bounce rates, for example.
  • Performance Monitoring: Analytics we gather on how our code performs for our users. This is primarily used for logging errors in our JavaScript that our users encounter.

Regardless of the category, they all work in a similar way. First, an inserted script tag loads a small amount of JavaScript into the page. This code is run in the web browser of anyone visiting the site. In most cases, the code drops a small text file with small pieces of data known as cookies onto the users' browsers. This data is used to identify the user session. This is sent back to the analytics tool, along with request information, to identify the...