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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

In this chapter, we learned what SEO is and what signals search engines use to identify quality content. We created an SEO component that we can use to add meta information to our site pages. Then, we enhanced this with Open Graph and Twitter meta tags for better site previews on social media platforms. We also implemented a sitemap to help search engines index our site effectively. Finally, we learned how to hide our site from search engines.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to test and audit our site. We will also explore how to audit our site page's SEO. By learning how to audit our site pages, we can identify ways to improve the speed of our pages too, which will also boost our SEO ranking.