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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 6: Improving Your Site's Search Engine Optimization

In this chapter, you will learn about how search engine optimization (SEO) works, what search engines look for within your site pages, and how to improve your site's presence on the web. We will also dive into other uses of metadata to make visually enticing social share previews for your site. By the end of this chapter, you will have created a reusable SEO component to provide meta information on every page. We will also create a sitemap to make it easier for search engines to understand our site. Finally, we will also learn how to stop our site from appearing in search engines if you would rather not have it publicly visible.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing SEO
  • Creating an SEO component
  • Exploring meta previews
  • Learning about XML sitemaps
  • Hiding your site from search engines