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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

Introducing SEO

SEO is the practice of improving the chances of search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, recommending your site's content to users as the best result for a given query or problem.

Important Note

Within this chapter, you will get an overview of what SEO is, why it's important, and how to implement pages with components that boost their SEO ranking. SEO is a vast subject and not something that can be covered in its entirety within this book. As such, you are encouraged to take what you learn in this chapter and build on it through your research.

Google will be the search engine that this chapter focuses on. Google has a 92% share of the search engine market worldwide. With all other search engines combined, taking less than a 10% share of the search engine market, there is no doubt that Google is dominating this space. Because of this, it is the logical search engine to gear this chapter toward.

If you want search engines to recommend your...