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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 all about web sockets and how we can use them to utilize real-time data within our Gatsby applications. Then, we implemented a working visitor count that shows the number of people on the current page, as well as the site as a whole. Visitor count statistics is one of a whole host of possible applications for web sockets within a personal site. Perhaps you could take what you have learned here and try and implement article reactions, polls, or even a chat application?

In the next chapter, we will learn about our final advanced concept – localization. We will learn how we can make our Gatsby site support multiple languages for an international audience.