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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

Chapter 9: Deployment and Hosting

In this chapter, we will finally take the project we have been working on and deploy it for the world to see! We will delve into the different types of builds that Gatsby creates and gain an understanding of how to debug common build errors. Following this, we will continue to learn how we can deploy them using a variety of different platforms. Additionally, we will discover how we can lock down access to our site by serving it up as part of an Express server.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding build types
  • Common build errors
  • Your pre-deployment checklist
  • Platforms for deploying hybrid builds
  • Platforms for deploying static builds
  • Serving a Gatsby site with reduced user access