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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned what a Gatsby plugin is and what types exist. We learned about local plugin development and how to create source and theme plugins. We created both source and theme plugins and then tested them locally by including them on our site. We then learned about sharing plugins online. We discussed what you should consider before deploying a plugin and then learned how to share a plugin by publishing them online via npm. By completing this chapter, you should now feel confident that you can create and share source and theme plugins with ease. This has been a brief introduction to a massive topic, and I hope you can build on this knowledge to create plugins for any use case.

In the next chapter, we will look at another advanced concept – authentication. We will learn how to create login experiences on your website.