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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

Chapter 11: Creating Authenticated Experiences

Within the context of this book, authentication is the act of verifying that a user is who they say they are within a website. Once their identity has been verified, we can show the individual content that's only meant for them. This might be their profile page, delivery address, bank details, and more. In this chapter, we're going to focus more on how to implement routing for use with authentication services instead of focusing on how to implement authentication services or what content to display when a user is authenticated. We will remind ourselves of how this is done in traditional React applications before applying this knowledge to Gatsby sites with two different client-side implementations.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Routing and authentication in React applications
  • Authentication using client-only routes within Gatsby
  • Site-wide authentication using context within Gatsby
  • ...