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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

Understanding localization and internationalization

While the end goal of this chapter is to set up localization, we can make things easier by implementing internationalization first. The terms localization and internationalization are often confused, so let's define these terms properly:

  • Internationalization: The process of ensuring that your website is created in such a way that it can support different languages, locales, and cultures. Internationalization is all about being proactive in your site's design and development to ensure that you don't have to completely redesign it later when you introduce it to a new market. This could include allowing text to be displayed from right to left as well as left to right, for example.
  • Localization: Normally conducted after internationalization, localization is the process of adapting your site to meet a new locale requirement. This could be adding a language or cultural requirement.

By spending the time...