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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)

Searching, installing, and configuring plugins

In this section, we will explore the Gatsby public plugin repository. We will look at how to install a Gatsby plugin and where to find the configuration for the plugins you would like to install.

We will install and configure the gatsby-source-filesystem and gatsby-source-drupal plugins and see how we can use them.

The Gatsby Plugin Library

Gatsby also provides a plugin library, a collection of npm packages tagged with the Gatsby keyword. In this library, it is possible to find standard plugins that will be used on most sites, related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Really Simple Syndication (RSS), social media buttons, third-party comment services, e-commerce integration, and more.

Important note

Before you start writing your custom plugin, please make sure it does not already exist in the Gatsby Plugin Library.

There are multiple benefits to using a plugin from the Gatsby Plugin Library. Some of them are listed...