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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Create a gatsby-config.js file in your root directory and add the following."

A block of code is set as follows:

module.exports = {
  plugins: [],
};

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

import React from "react"
import {Link} from "gatsby"
export default function Index() => {
    return (
        <div>
            <h1>My Landing Page</h1>
            <p>This is my landing page.</p>
            <Link to="/about">About Me</Link>
        </div>
    )
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

gatsby develop -H 0.0.0.0

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "When you hit the Play button above the query, you will see the result of that query on the central right column, with a JSON object containing the data property and our query's result inside it."

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