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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

The StaticImage component

StaticImage is best used when an image will always remain the same. It could be your site logo, which is the same across all pages, or a profile photo that you use at the end of blog posts, or a home page hero section, or anywhere else where the image is not required to be dynamic.

Unlike most React components, the StaticImage component has some limitations on how you can pass the props to it. It will not accept and use any of its parents' props. If you are looking for this functionality, you will want to use the GatsbyImage component.

To get an understanding of how we utilize the StaticImage component, we will implement an image on the hero of our home page:

  1. Create an assets folder next to your src folder. To keep things organized, it is good practice to keep images away from your source code. We will use the assets folder to house any visual assets.
  2. Create a folder within assets called images. We will use this folder to store the...