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Jumpstart Jamstack Development

By : Christopher Pecoraro, Vincenzo Gambino
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Jumpstart Jamstack Development

By: Christopher Pecoraro, Vincenzo Gambino

Overview of this book

Jamstack (JavaScript, API, and Markup) enables web developers to create and publish modern and maintainable websites and web apps focused on speed, security, and accessibility by using tools such as Gatsby, Sanity, and Netlify. Developers working with Jamstack will be able to put their knowledge to good use with this practical guide to static site generation and content management. This Jamstack book takes a hands-on approach to implementation and related methodologies that will have you up and running with modern web development in no time. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, you'll begin by building an event and venue schema structure, and then expand the functionality, exploring all that the Jamstack has to offer. You’ll learn how an example Jamstack is built, build structured content using Sanity to create a schema, use GraphQL to expose the content, and employ Gatsby to build an event website using page and template components and Tailwind CSS Framework. Lastly, you’ll deploy the website to both, a Netlify server and the Microsoft Static Web Apps Service, and interact with it using Amazon Alexa. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge and skills you need to install, configure, build, extend, and deploy a simple events website using Jamstack.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Chapter 10: Building Gatsby Components

This chapter introduces the M component of the Jamstack; that is, Markup. Markup is most often used to render, or produce, the content that the end user will view in the browser, decorated with some formatting. Code modularity in Gatsby is achieved through the use of components, which are its building blocks. Each component building block that is built using JavaScript and JSX will accept input and return HTML and web content to the browser. In this chapter, we will learn how to create, edit, and extend these components – the building blocks of the site.

Components exist in several forms, so we will also look at how they can produce single pages, exist as page templates, and finally how page partials are structured and how the three differ from one another.

The main topics that we will cover in this chapter are the following:

  • React components
  • Understanding the types of components