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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

Styling with CSS

In this section, we will learn how to implement CSS styling into our Gatsby project.

There are two different methods to adding global CSS styling to our Gatsby site – creating a wrapper component or using gatsby-browser.js.

Creating a wrapper component

The idea behind a wrapper component is to wrap our page components in another component that brings common styles to the page:

  1. Create StyleWrapper.css in your components folder:
    html {
      background-color: #f9fafb;
      font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto,
        Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif,
        "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI
        Symbol";
    }

    In the preceding code, we are defining a background color and a font family that all children of the HTML tag can inherit.

  2. Let's now add some h1 styles to this file:
    h1 {
      color: #2563eb;
      size: 6rem;
      font-weight: 800;
    }

    Here, we are adding the color, size, and weight of the largest heading...