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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

I appreciate that most of the content in this chapter has been theoretical, but it's important to understand the "why" as well as the "how." In this chapter, we have cemented the baseline knowledge of what Gatsby is and grasped the guiding principles we will be using in further chapters to build our website. We've seen examples of where Gatsby is being used and the benefits it can bring. We discussed what dependencies you need and how to initialize Gatsby projects. We have also set up a complete basic Gatsby project and created the first few pages of our website. We then used the built-in Gatsby components and functions to link our pages together.

We will be referencing the theory we've outlined in this chapter throughout this book, but for now, let's turn our focus to styling our web application. In the next chapter, we will identify various different styling methodologies and make an informed choice about which one you should use for your project.