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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 2: Styling Choices and Creating Reusable Layouts

Gatsby sites can be styled in a multitude of ways. In this chapter, we will introduce you to a large selection of styling techniques to help you make an informed choice about how you would like to style your site. Once you've settled on a styling method, we will implement it on the pages we created in Chapter 1, An Overview of Gatsby.js for the Uninitiated, before creating the reusable components that will be used across all our site pages.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Styling in Gatsby
  • Styling with CSS
  • Styling with Sass
  • Styling with Tailwind.css
  • Styling with Styled components
  • Creating a reusable layout