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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby

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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.
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Part 1: Getting Started
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Part 2: Going Live
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Part 3: Advanced Concepts

Chapter 4: Creating Reusable Templates

This chapter is where you will really begin to see the power that Gatsby brings to larger sites. You will learn about how we can programmatically create pages using reusable templates and data sourced via GraphQL. By the end of this chapter, you will have created lists of blog posts, blog pages, and tag pages. You'll also understand how to introduce pagination and search functionality to your site.

All the pages we have created up until now have been single instances, meaning there is only one copy of that page on the site (for example, our index page, of which there will be only one copy ever). But what happens when we consider pages such as blog pages? It would be a very laborious process to create a single instance page for each post. So, instead, we can use templates. A template is a multi-instance of a page component that is mapped to data. For every node in a GraphQL query, we can create a page using this template and populate it...

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